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Arawá language

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Aruá
Native toBrazil
RegionAmazonas State
Extinct1877
Arawan
  • Aruá
Language codes
ISO 639-3aru
aru
Glottologarua1263

Arawá (a.k.a. Aruá) is an extinct language of Brazil. The people were wiped out by introduced measles, and the last speaker died in 1877. All that survives is a word list from 1869.

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