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Arutani (Orotani, Urutani, also
known as Awake, Auake, Auaqué, Aoaqui, Oewaku,
ethnonym Uruak) is a
nearly extinct language spoken in Roraima, Brazil...
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Arutani–Sape, also
known as Awake–Kaliana or Kalianan, is a
proposed language family that
includes two of the most
poorly do****ented
languages in South...
- families: Maku (mako) (266) Pumé (4.061) Sapé (25) (
arutani-sapé languages ?)
Uruak (39) (
arutani-sapé languages ?)
Warao (18.696): This
language is mainly...
- Punave-Maku and the Máku
language (Maku of Auari) is
sometimes connected to the
Arutani–Sape
languages (yet
again also
known as Maku) in a
Kalianan branch, a connection...
- (9)
Arawakan (South
America & Caribbean) (64) (also
known as Maipurean)
Arutani Aymaran (3)
Baenan (Brazil: Bahia) (also
known as Baenán, Baenã) † Barbacoan...
- Saúba Southern: Mucajaí Central:
Uraricoera The
remaining speakers of
Arutani and Sapé also
speak Ninam (Shirián),
since they now
mostly live in Ninam...
- Peru.
Jolkesky (2016)
notes that
there are
lexical similarities with the
Arutani, Paez, Sape, Taruma, Witoto-Okaina, Saliba-Hodi, Tikuna-Yuri, Pano, Barbakoa...
- Chibchan, Puinave-Kak, Jirajara,
Tukano (especially
Cubeo and Wanano),
Arutani, and Máku
language families due to contact.
Similarities with Chibchan...
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Rivers a.k.a. Mácu, Macú, Makú the
Achagua language a.k.a. Makú-Achagua the
Arutani–Sape
languages the
Yanomaman languages a.k.a. Macú-Yanomami the Carabayo...
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Kalianan grouping with
Arutani–Sape (a.k.a. Makú)
within a Macro-Puinavean
grouping with
Nadahup (a.k.a. Makú), Katukinan, and
Arutani–Sape
Kaufman (1990)...
