Macro-Puinavean | |
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(dubious) | |
Geographic distribution | Amazon |
Linguistic classification | Proposed language family |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | – |
Glottolog | None |
Macro-Puinavean is a hypothetical proposal linking some very poorly attested languages to the Nadahup family.[1] The Puinave language is sometimes linked specifically with the Nadahup languages and Nukak-Kakwa group, as Puinave–Maku. Paul Rivet (1920) and other researchers proposed decades ago the hypothesis of a Puinave-Makú family.[2] Later, Joseph Greenberg (1987) grouped the Puinave-Makú languages, together with the Tucano family, the Katukinan, Waorani and Ticuna languages in the Macro-Tukano trunk.[3]
Punave-Maku and the Máku language (Maku of Auari) is sometimes connected to the Arutani–Sape languages (yet again also known as Maku) in a Kalianan branch, a connection which Kaufman (1990) finds "promising", but there is too little data on these languages to know for sure.[4] Hodï has been proposed specifically as a sister of Puinave–Maku too.[5]
Kaufman (1994: 60, 2007: 67–68) also adds Katukinan to the family.[6][7]
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