Amazonian languages is the collective term for the indigenous languages of Greater Amazonia, a region extending from the Atlantic coast to the Andes and bounded to the south by the Parana River. It is not a single genetic family but an areal grouping of roughly 330 languages, about fifty of them isolates and the rest distributed across some twenty five distinct families such as Tupian, Macro-Je, Cariban, Arawakan, Panoan and Tukanoan; nearly half of the region's languages have fewer than 500 speakers, and only Wayuu, with about 300,000 speakers, exceeds 100,000.
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- Also in Geography Atlas: Amazonia, found in there.
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1. Amazonian languages - Wikipedia
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extends from the Atlantic coast all the way to the Andes
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