Parawana language

{{Short description|Extinct Arawakan language of Brazil}}

{{Expand Portuguese|Língua parawana|date=October 2020}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Parawana

| nativename =

| region = Lower Branco River

| states = Brazil

| extinct = ?

| ref =

| ethnicity =

| familycolor = arawakan

| fam1 = Arawakan

| fam2 = Northern

| fam3 = Pidjanan ?

| iso3 = none

| glotto = para1324

| glottorefname = Parauana

| altname = Aroaqui?

}}

Parawana is an extinct Arawakan language of Brazil that was spoken on the Wanawaua River (now known as the Anauá River), a tributary of the lower Rio Branco.{{cite book |last=Ramirez |first=Henri |author-link=Henri Ramirez |date=2020 |title=Enciclopédia das línguas Arawak: acrescida de seis novas línguas e dois bancos de dados |volume=3 |edition=1 |url=https://publishercrv.com.br/produtos/detalhes/35676-enciclopedia-das-linguas-arawak-br-acrescida-de-seis-novas-linguas-e-dois-bancos-de-dados-br-volume-iii |location=Curitiba |publisher=Editora CRV |isbn=978-65-251-0234-4 |doi=10.24824/978652510234.4 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho de Valhery. 2016. [http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:jolkesky-2016-arqueoecolinguistica Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418142223/http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:jolkesky-2016-arqueoecolinguistica |date=2021-04-18 }}. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília. A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1832.{{rp|18}}

Parawana and Aroaqui are closely related, and may be the same language.