Arawan (also Arahuan, Arauan, Arawán, Arawa, Arauán) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil (Amazonas, Acre) and Peru (Ucayali). Language contact Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Chapakura-Wañam, Jivaro, Kwaza, Maku, Mura-Matanawi, Taruma, Yanomami, Arawak, Nadahup, Puinave-Kak, and Tupi language families due to contact. Family division Arauan consists of half a dozen languages: Arawá † Kulina Deni Jamamadi Paumari Suruwahá Jolkesky (2016) Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016): († = extinct) Arawa Suruwaha Madi-Deni-Paumari Paumari Deni, Kulina Madi-Arawa Arawa † Madi: Banawa; Jamamadi; Jarawara Dienst (2010) Internal classification by Dienst (2010): Arawan Arawa † Paumari Suruwahá Madi-Madihá Madi Eastern Jamamadi Banawá Jarawara Madihá Kulina Western Jamamadi Deni Mason (1950) Arauá internal classification by Mason (1950): Arauá Culino Culina Curia Curiana Culiña Pama Pama Pamana Yamamadí Yamamadí: Capaná, Capinamari, Colo Purupurú: Paumarí (Pammarí) Yuberi Madihá Sewacu Sipó Other varieties Himarimã - presumed language spoken by the Himarimã people along the Piranha River between the Juruá River and Purus River. Per Suruwahá and Banawá testimonies, it is believed to be Arawan. Unattested varieties listed by Loukotka (1968): Purupurú - extinct language spoken in the same region on the lower course of the Purus River. (Unattested) Uainamari / Wainamarí - extinct language spoken on the Inauini River, a tributary of the upper Purus River. (Unattested) Uatanari / Watanarí - once spoken on the Ituxi River and Sepatini River in the same region; now perhaps extinct. (Unattested) Sewacu - once spoken on the Pauini River, now on the left bank of the Purus River on the opposite side of the mouth of the Sepatini River. (Unattested) Pamana - once spoken on the Ituxi River and Mucuim River near Lake Agaam, the same region; now probably extinct. (Unattested) Amamati - extinct language once spoken on the Mucuim River north of the Pamana tribe. (Unattested) Yuberí / Xubiri - once spoken on the middle course of the Purus River on the opposite side of the mouth of the Mamoriá River and around Lake Abunini, now on the lower course of the Tapauá River, the same region. (Unattested) Sipó / Cipo - extinct language once spoken north of the Yuberi tribe on the Tapaua River. (Unattested) Curina / Kurina / Kólö - language spoken in two regions; first, on the right bank of the Juruá River, along the Marari River and on the upper course of the Tapauá River; second, on the