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Marawá language

Marawá is an extinct Arawakan language of Brazil.

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Marawá
Maragua
Native toBrazil
RegionAmazonas (Brazilian state)
Extinctafter 19201
Arawakan
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmara1409

Marawá (Maragua, Marauia, Marauha)456 is an extinct Arawakan language of Brazil.

Vocabulary

6
Marawa gloss
uquaschumu 1
muschamu 2
gheben 3
References

References

  1. Ramirez, Henri (2001). Línguas Arawak da Amazônia Setentrional (PDF). Manaus: EDUA.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2026). "Maragua". Glottolog 5.3. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 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.
  4. "Glottolog 5.2 - Maragua". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2025-10-17.
  5. 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.
  6. von Martius, Carl Friedrich Philip (1863). Wörtersammlung Brasilianischer Sprachen, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Amerikas zumal Brasiliens (PDF) (in German, Portuguese, and Latin). Vol. II. Leipzig: Friedrich Fleischer. pp. 223–225.