The Amazonian Languages

20 R M. W. Dl:wn and Alexandra y. Aikhenvald
1 Introduction
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Then, in chapter 12, Mary Ruth Wise surveys the smalllanguage families of Peru.
In chapter 13, we provide Sorne information on the small families and language isolates
of Srazil, Bolivia, Colombia and Venezuela. The final two chapters look at linguistic
areas - the established area in the I¡;ana-Vaupés River Sasin, and the
incipient area on the Upper Xingu River.
There are a few langllages that we say nothing about, for the simple reason that
almost nothing is known about them. These include: Awaké, Hoti, Irantxe, Kanoé,
Puinave, Sape and the small Katukina family.
the present book has not been an easy task. The contributors come from
differing backgrounds and have different kinds ol' lingllistic training. In a couple ol'
instances one of the editors had personal contact with contributors and she was
able to work c10sely with them on their chapters. Chapters 9 and 15 were written in
Portuguese and translated into English by the editors. We have not in all cases been
able to achieve the degree of coverage that we had hoped foro The reader will be able
to see for themself, from this volume, what the state of the art is at tlle end of the
twentieth century - with respect to knowledge of the various language families in
Amazonia.
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