Open AccessThe internal classification of the Arawan languages
Author(s) -
Stefan Dienst
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
liames
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2177-7160
pISSN - 1678-0531
DOI - 10.20396/liames.v8i1.1471
Subject(s) - amazon rainforest , linguistics , genealogy , geography , computer science , history , natural language processing , biology , philosophy , ecology
The Arawan language family of south-western Amazonia was named after the extinct Arawá language, which is only known from a short wordlist collected by William Chandless in 1867. This paper investigates what Chandless’s list tells us about the position of Arawá within the family and what can currently be said about the relationship between the living Arawan languages.