Mepuri language

Mepuri
Mepuri
Native to	Brazil
Region	Amazonas
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Arawakan Northern Mepuri; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	mepu1234

Last updated November 04, 2025

Mepuri is an extinct Arawakan language of Brazil that was spoken around the confluence of the Rio Negro and Japurá River, mainly on the Marié River and Curicuriari River.^[1]^[2] A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1831.^[1]

Classification

Mepuri is grouped as a member of the Japurá-Colômbia branch by Ramirez and França (2019).^[3]

References

1 2 Ramirez, Henri (2020). Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados. Vol. 2 (1 ed.). Curitiba: Editora CRV. doi:10.24824/978655578892.1. ISBN 978-65-5578-892-1.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
↑ Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas Archived 2021-04-18 at the Wayback Machine . Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.
↑ Ramirez, Henri; França, Maria Cristina Victorino de (2019-09-23). "Línguas Arawak da Bolívia". LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas. 19: e019012. doi:10.20396/liames.v19i0.8655045. ISSN 2177-7160.

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[Ramirez-2020-2-1] 1 2 Ramirez, Henri (2020). Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados. Vol. 2 (1 ed.). Curitiba: Editora CRV. doi:10.24824/978655578892.1. ISBN 978-65-5578-892-1.^{[ permanent dead link ]}

[Jolkesky-2016-2] Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas Archived 2021-04-18 at the Wayback Machine . Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.

[3] Ramirez, Henri; França, Maria Cristina Victorino de (2019-09-23). "Línguas Arawak da Bolívia". LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas. 19: e019012. doi:10.20396/liames.v19i0.8655045. ISSN 2177-7160.

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