Peba–Yaguan languages
The Peba–Yaguan language family is located in the northwestern Amazon, but today Yagua is the only remaining spoken language of the family.
Internal structure
French ethnologist Paul Rivet had suggested that the Peba–Yaguan family had been divided into two branches, with Yameo in one branch, and Peba and Yagua in the other. There is extremely little documentation of Yameo and Peba, both of which are now extinct, though the town Pebas on the Amazon River clearly takes its name from this group of people. The available documentation is largely due to the efforts of early Catholic missionaries, as summarized by Rivet.Čestmír Loukotka, a Czechoslovak linguist, also lists Masamae as part of the language family. It is spoken around the Mazán River in Loreto Department, Peru, and is most closely related to Yameo.
Brazilian linguist Marcelo Jolkesky groups Peba and Yameo in one branch, and Yagua in another separate branch.