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FAMILY DIVISION


Guaicuruan consists of 7 languages:

: A. Guaykurú branch
:: 1. Kadiweu (a.k.a. Caduveo, Kadiwéu, Mbayá-Guaycuru, Mbayá, Guaicurú, Waikurú, Ediu-Adig)
: B. Southern branch
:: 2. Pilagá (a.k.a. Pilacá)
:: 3. Toba (a.k.a. Qom, Chaco Sur, Namqom)
:: 4. Mocoví (a.k.a. Mbocobí, Mokoví, Moqoyt)
:: 5. Abipón (a.k.a. Callaga, Kalyaga, Abipon) ''(†)''
: C. Eastern branch
:: 6. Guachí (a.k.a. Wachí) ''(†)''
:: 7. Payaguá (a.k.a. Payawá) ''(†)''

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.

The Toba language here should not be confused with the Mascoy Language of the Mascoyan family which is also called ''Toba'' (or ''Toba-Emok'', ''Toba-Maskoy'').


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.

Joseph Greenberg places Guaicuruan within a ''Mataco-Guaicuru'' grouping similar to Swadesh's Macro-Mapuche with the exception that his Mataco-Guaicuru also includes Lule-Vilela . Mataco-Guaicuru is then connected with Panoan , Tacanan , and Mosetenan in his larger ''Macro-Panoan'' phylum.

Kaufman (1990) suggests that the Guaicuruan-Matacoan-Charruan-Mascoyan-Lule-Vilela proposal deserves to be explored — a grouping which he calls ''Macro-Waikurúan''. Kaufman's (1994) Macro-Waikurúan proposal excludes Lule-Vilela.


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BIBLIOGRAPHY


  • Adelaar, Willem F. H.; & Muysken, Pieter C. (2004). ''The languages of the Andes''. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press.

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  • 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. ISBN 0-2927-0414-3.

  • 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.