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Mepuri
Native to Brazil
Region Amazonas
Extinct(date missing)
Arawakan
  • Northern
    • Mepuri
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottolog mepu1234

Mepuri 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. [1] [2] A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1831. [1]

References

  1. ^ a b 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.[ permanent dead link]
  2. ^ 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.