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]

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

References edit

  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.
  2. ^ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.