Paresi–Waura languages explained

Pareci–Xingu
Also Known As:	Central Maipurean
Region:	Brazil, Bolivia
Familycolor:	American
Fam2:	Southern ?
Glotto:	cent2226
Glottorefname:	Central Maipuran

The Pareci–Xingu languages, also known as Paresi–Waura or Central Maipurean, are Maipurean / Arawakan languages of the Bolivian and western Brazilian Amazon.

Languages

Kaufman (1994) gives the following breakdown:

• Pareci–Xingu
  • Paresí group
    • Paresí also known as Parecís, Haliti
    • Saraveca also known as Sarave
  • Waurá group
    • Waura–Mehináku also known as Wauja, Meinaku
    • Yawalapiti also known as Jaulapiti
    • Custenau also known as Kustenaú

More recent works by Fabre (2005) as well as Brandão and Facundes (2007) include Enawene Nawe in a subgroup with Paresí.^[1]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Ana Paula Barros . Brandão . A reference grammar of Paresi-Haliti (Arawak) . 6-7 . 2014 . 2021-01-21 . 2020-11-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201130004720/https://amerindias.github.io/referencias/bra14referencegrammarparesi.pdf . live .