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Mepuri language

Mepuri (Meppuri) is an extinct Arawakan language of Brazil that was spoken around the confluence of the Rio Negro and Japurá River, mainly on the Marié River and Curicuriari River. A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1831.

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Mepuri
Native toBrazil
RegionAmazonas
Extinct(date missing)
Arawakan
  • Northern
    • Mepuri
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmepu1234

Mepuri (Meppuri)12 is an extinct Arawakan language of Brazil that was spoken around the confluence of the Rio Negro and Japurá River, mainly on the Marié River and Curicuriari River.34 A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1831.3

Classification

Mepuri is grouped as a member of the Japurá-Colômbia branch by Ramirez and França (2019).5

References

References

  1. Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Brijnen, Hélène B. (2015-07-10). "Johann Natterer and the Amazonian languages" (PDF). Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica. 6 (2): 333–352. doi:10.26512/rbla.v6i2.16285. ISSN 2317-1375.
  2. Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Brijnen, Hélène B. (2014). "Natterer's Linguistic Heritage". In Weltmuseum Wien Friends (ed.). Archiv 63-64. ISBN 978-3-643-99824-8.
  3. Ramirez, Henri (2020). Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados. Vol. 2 (1 ed.). Curitiba: Editora CRV. doi:10.24824/978655578892.1. ISBN 978-65-5578-892-1.
  4. Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas Archived 2021-04-18 at the Wayback Machine. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.
  5. Ramirez, Henri; França, Maria Cristina Victorino de (2019-09-23). "Línguas Arawak da Bolívia". LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas. 19: e019012. doi:10.20396/liames.v19i0.8655045. ISSN 2177-7160.