Language family of indigenous peoples in South America
This article is about the Maipurean languages, or Arawakan proper. For the Araucanian language family spoken in the Patagonia, see Araucanian languages.
Arawakan
Maipurean
Geographic distribution
Extant in every country in South America, except for Ecuador, Uruguay and Chile. Formerly spoken in Central America and the Caribbean.
Linguistic classification
Macro-Arawakan ?
Arawakan
Proto-language
Proto-Arawakan
Subdivisions
Northern
Southern
ISO 639-5
awd
Glottolog
araw1281
Maipurean languages in South America (Caribbean and Central America not included): North-Maipurean (pale blue) and South-Maipurean (deeper blue). Spots represent location of extant languages, and shadowed areas show probable earlier locations.
Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branches migrated to Central America and the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean and the Atlantic, including what is now the Bahamas. Almost all present-day South American countries are known to have been home to speakers of Arawakan languages, the exceptions being Ecuador, Uruguay, and Chile. Maipurean may be related to other language families in a hypothetical Macro-Arawakan stock.
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