Arazaire language

{{Distinguish|text=the Arasairi language, a dialect of Harakmbut and also of Peru}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Arazaire–Arasa

| fontcolor = #ffffff

| altname =

| states = Peru

| region = Department of Madre de Dios

| familycolor = pano-tacanan

| fam1 = Panoan/Tacanan

| fam2 = Mainline Panoan

| fam3 = Nawa

| fam4 = Madre de Dios

| iso3 = none

| glotto = araz1236

| glottorefname = Arazaire

| era = attested 1906

| dia1 = Arazaire

| dia2 = Arasa

| ethnicity = Arazaire

}}

Arazaire and Arasa are a pair of closely related languages of uncertain affiliation, within the Pano-Tacanan languages.{{Cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Lyle |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pA-ryJRcG3AC |title=The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide |last2=Grondona |first2=Verónica |date=2012-01-27 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-025803-5 |pages=148–149 |language=en}}{{Cite journal |last=Campbell |first=Lyle |date=March 2003 |title=On South American Indian languages: reply to Aikhenvald |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-linguistics/article/abs/on-south-american-indian-languages-reply-to-aikhenvald/9D7E8FFDBC105BA9F5473E8F65A7CAC0 |journal=Journal of Linguistics |language=en |volume=39 |issue=1 |pages=141–146 |doi=10.1017/S0022226702211950 |issn=1469-7742}}

Classification

These have been claimed to be either Panoan or Takanan, or Takanan with Panoan words. Campbell (2012) says they are too poorly attested to classify. However, Fleck (2013) classifies them definitely in the Madre de Dios branch of Panoan, and says that the confusion is due to a second, Takanan language that also went by the names Arazaire and Arasa; a similar naming problem has caused confusion with its close relative Yamiaka. The name Arasairi has been used for yet another language, a dialect of the language isolate Harakmbut.

Loukotka (1968) uses Arazaire for the Panoan language and Arasa for the Takanan language.{{Cite book |last=Loukotka |first=Čestmír |url=https://archive.org/details/classificationof0007louk/mode/2up |title=Classification of South American Indian languages |date=1968 |publisher=Los Angeles : University of California, Latin American Center |others=Internet Archive}} The names both derive from the Arasa river.{{Cite web |title=Arasaeri (Arasaeris) |url=https://www.native-languages.org/definitions/arasaeri.htm |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=www.native-languages.org}}

Vocabulary

class="wikitable" \|+{{Cite web \|title=Beiträge zur Kenntnis einiger Indianerstämme des Rio Madre de Dios-gebietes. \|url=https://www.pueblos-originarios.ucb.edu.bo/digital/106001946.pdf \|website=www.pueblos-originarios.ucb.edu.bo}} !gloss !!various Panoan!!Arazaire ("Panoan") !!Arasa ("Takanan")
sun	huari	fuari	huári
one \|	nunchina	nonchina
two \|	buta	béta
head \|	mashashue	é-osha
water	éna, xéne, etc.	humapasha	éna
maize \|	hoki	shishe
house	shopo, shobo		so:po

References

Category:Languages of Peru

Category:Panoan languages

Category:Tacanan languages