Macro-Warpean languages

Macro-Warpean
(controversial)
Geographic
distribution		South America
Linguistic classificationProposed language family
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Macro-Warpean (or Macro-Huarpean) is a provisional proposal by Kaufman (1994) that connected the extinct Huarpe language with the previously connected Muran and Matanawí (Mura–Matanawí).[1] Morris Swadesh had included Huarpe in his Macro-Jibaro proposal.[2]

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Payne, David Lawrence. 1981. "Bosquejo fonológico del Proto-Shuar-Candoshi: evidencias para una relación genética." Revista del Museo Nacional 45. 323-377.