Guaicuruan languages

Not to be confused with Guaicurian languages.
Guaicuruan
Waikurúan
Ethnicity: Guaycuru peoples
Geographic
distribution:
northern Argentina, western Paraguay, southern Brazil
Linguistic classification:

Mataco–Guaicuru ?

  • Guaicuruan
Subdivisions:
Glottolog: guai1249[1]

Guaicuruan (Guaykuruan, Waikurúan, Guaycuruano, Guaikurú, Guaicurú, Guaycuruana) is a language family spoken in northern Argentina, western Paraguay, and Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul).

Family division

Guaicuruan/Waikurúan languages are often classified as follows:

Abipón, Guachí, and Payaguá all are extinct.

Harriet Klein argues against the assumption that Kadiweu is Guaicuruan. Most others accept the inclusion of Kadiweu into the family.

Genetic relations

Jorge Suárez includes Guaicuruan with Charruan in a hypothetical Waikuru-Charrúa stock. Morris Swadesh includes Guaicuruan along with Matacoan, Charruan, and Mascoyan within his Macro-Mapuche stock. Both proposals appear to be obsolete.

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Guaicuruan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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