Chapacuran languages

Chapacuran
Chapacura–Wanham
Linguistic classificationWamo–Chapakúra ?
  • Chapacuran
Subdivisions
  • Madeira
  • Guapore
Language codes
Glottologchap1271

The Chapacuran languages are a nearly extinct Native American language family of South America. Almost all Chapacuran languages are extinct, and the four that are extant are moribund, with the exception of Wari'. They are spoken in Rondônia in the southern Amazon Basin of Brazil and in northern Bolivia.

According to Kaufman (1990),[1] the Chapacuran family could be related to the extinct Wamo language.

  1. ^ Kaufman, Terrence (1990). "Language History in South America: What we know and how to know more". In David L. Payne (ed.). Amazonian Linguistics. Austin: University of Texas Press.