Mataco–Guaicuru languages explained

Mataguayo–Guaicuru
Also Known As:	Macro-Waikurúan
Acceptance:	proposed
Region:	South America
Familycolor:	American
Glotto:	none
Map:	Mataco-Guaicuru Languages.png

Mataguayo–Guaicuru, Mataco–Guaicuru or Macro-Waikurúan is a proposed language family consisting of the Mataguayan and Guaicuruan languages. Pedro Viegas Barros claims to have demonstrated it.^{[1] [2] [3]} These languages are spoken in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

Genetic relations

Jorge Suárez linked Guaicuruan and Charruan in a Waikuru-Charrúa stock. Kaufman (2007: 72) has also added Lule–Vilela and Zamucoan,^[4] while Morris Swadesh proposed a Macro-Mapuche stock that included Matacoan, Guaicuruan, Charruan, and Mascoyan. Campbell (1997) has argued that those hypotheses should be further investigated, though he no longer intends to evaluate it.^[5]

Language contact

Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Arawakan, Tupian, Trumai, and Ofayé language families due to contact, pointing to an origin of Proto-Mataguayo-Guaicuruan in the Upper Paraguay River basin.^[6]

Classification

Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):^[6]

(= extinct)

• Macro-Mataguayo-Guaykuru
  • Payagua
  • Guachi
  • Guaykuru
    • Kadiweu
    • Qom-Abipon
      • Abipon
      • Qom
        • Qom, Southern: Mokovi
        • Qom, Northern: Pilaga; Toba
  • Mataguayo
    • Mataguayo, Western
      • Chorote: Chorote Iyojwa'ja; Chorote Iyo'wujwa
      • Wichi: Wichi Guisnay; Wichi Nokten; Wichi Vejoz
    • Mataguayo, Eastern
      • Maka
      • Nivakle

Chaco linguistic area

Campbell and Grondona (2012) consider the languages to be part of a Chaco linguistic area. Common Chaco areal features include SVO word order and active-stative verb alignment.^[7]

See also

• Gran Chaco people

References

• Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. .
• Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.

Notes and References

1. Pedro Viegas Barros (1992-1993). ¿Existe una relación genética entre las lenguas mataguayas y guaycurúes? Em: J. Braunstein (ed.), Hacia una nueva carta étnica del Gran Chaco V, 193-213. Las Lomitas (Formosa): Centro del Hombre Antiguo Chaqueño (CHACO).
2. Pedro Viegas Barros (2006). La hipótesis macro-guaicurú. Semejanzas gramaticales guaicurú-mataguayo. Revista UniverSOS, 3:183-212. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia.
3. Pedro Viegas Barros (2013). La hipótesis de parentesco Guaicurú-Mataguayo: estado actual de la cuestión. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica, 5.2:293-333.
4. Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. South America. In: R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley (eds.), Atlas of the World’s Languages (2nd edition), 59–94. London: Routledge.
5. Book: Campbell, Lyle . Lyle Campbell . Grondona . Verónica . Campbell . Lyle . 2012 . The Indigenous Languages of South America . Classification of the indigenous languages of South America . The World of Linguistics . 2 . Berlin . De Gruyter Mouton . 59–166 . 9783110255133.
6. Jolkesky . Marcelo Pinho de Valhery . 2016 . Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas . Ph.D. dissertation . Brasília . University of Brasília . 2.
7. Book: Campbell . Lyle . Lyle Campbell . Grondona . Verónica . Grondona . Verónica . Campbell . Lyle . 2012 . The Indigenous Languages of South America . Languages of the Chaco and Southern Cone . The World of Linguistics . 2 . Berlin . De Gruyter Mouton . 625–668 . 9783110255133.