Arawakan (73 languages)

• Guahiban (5 languages; Guahibo proper has 20,000 speakers)
• Arauán (8 or 9 languages; Culina has 1300 speakers)
• Maipuran (60 languages)
  • Northern Maipuran
    • Palikur (1 language, c. 1200 speakers)
    • Wapishana-Caribbean (includes Ta-Arawak. 7 languages; Wayuu [Goajiro] c. 300,000 speakers, Garífuna [Black Carib] c. 100,000 speakers)
    • Inland (15 languages; Baniwa has 3-4000 speakers, Piapoco c. 3000)
  • Southern Maipuran
    • Campa (10 languages; Asháninca or Campa proper has 15-18,000 speakers, Ashéninca 18-25,000)
    • Central (6 languages; Piro has c. 300 speakers)
    • Amuesha (2 languages; Yanesha' has 6-8,000 speakers)
    • Purus-Parana (10 languages, inc. Apurinã, Moxo, Terêna; Terêna has 10,000 speakers)

There are, in addition, 9 unclassified Maipuran languages.

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See also

• Maipurean
• Arawak
• List of Taínos
• Taínos
• List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin
• Cariban languages
• Carib
• Taino
• Garifuna
• Neo-Taíno nations

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External links

• Ethnologue: Arawakan
• Ethnologue: Arawakan, Maipuran
• Proel: Tronco Arahuacano
• Proel: Sub-tronco Maipureano
• Proel: Familia Macro-Arahuacana
• Etnolinguistica.Org: online resources on native South American languages

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Bibliography

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• Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
• Derbyshire, Desmond C. (1992). Arawakan languages. In W. Bright (Ed.), International encyclopedia of linguistics (Vol. 1, pp. 102-105). New Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
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• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.
• Migliazza, Ernest C.; & Campbell, Lyle. (1988). Panorama general de las lenguas indígenas en América (pp. 223). Historia general de América (Vol. 10). Caracas: Instituto Panamericano de Geografía e Historia.
• Payne, David. (1991). A classification of Maipuran (Arawakan) languages based on shared lexical retentions. In D. C. Derbyshire & G. K. Pullum (Eds.), Handbook of Amazonian languages (Vol. 3, pp. 355-499). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

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