Arawá language

Aruá
Native to	Brazil
Region	Amazonas State
Extinct	1877
Language family	Arawan Aruá;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aru
Linguist List	aru
Glottolog	arua1263[1]

Arawá AKA Aruá is an extinct language of Brazil. The people were wiped out by introduced measles, and the last speaker died in 1877. All that survives is a word list from 1869.

References

Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Arua (Amazonas State)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[Glottolog-1] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Arua (Amazonas State)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.