Kanamarí language
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Kanamarí is a Katukinian
Katukinan languages
Katukinan is a language group consisting of three languages in Brazil.*Kanamarí*Katawixi*Katukína-References:*Alain Fabre, 2005, Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos: KATUKINA...

 language spoken by about 650 individuals in Amazonas, Brazil
Brazil
Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...

. It is considered endangered
Endangered language
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use. If it loses all its native speakers, it becomes a dead language. If eventually no one speaks the language at all it becomes an "extinct language"....

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Kanamarí is completely unrelated with kanamaré, an maipurean language of the Piro branch
Piro languages
The Piro languages, Purus, or in Aikhenvald South-Western Arawak, are Arawakan languages of the Peruvian and western Brazilian Amazon.-Languages:Kaufman gives the following breakdown:* Yine * Iñapari ...

spoken near kanamarí.
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