The Paresi-Waura languages, also called the Pareci-Xingu or Central Maipurean languages, are a branch of the Arawakan, or Maipurean, family spoken across the Bolivian and western Brazilian Amazon. Linguist Terrence Kaufman's 1994 classification divides the branch into a Paresi group of Paresi and Saraveca and a Waura group of Waura-Mehinaku, Yawalapiti and Kustenau, while more recent work by Alain Fabre and by Sidney Facundes and Ana Vilacy Brandao places Enawene Nawe in a subgroup with Paresi.
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1. Glottolog: Central Maipuran (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 7
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
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