Macro-Waikurúan
| Mataco–Guaicuru | |
|---|---|
| Macro-Waikurúan | |
| (obsolete?) | |
| Geographic distribution: |
South America |
| Linguistic classification: | Proposed language family |
| Subdivisions: | |
| Glottolog: | None |
 |
|
Mataco–Guaicuru or Macro-Waikurúan is a hypothetical language family consisting of the Guaicuruan, Matacoan, and sometimes Mascoian and Charruan families. These are spoken in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia.
Jorge Suárez linked Guaicuruan and Charruan in a Waikuru-Charrúa stock. Morris Swadesh proposed a Macro-Mapuche stock that included Matacoan, Guaicuruan, Charruan, and Mascoyan.Terrence Kaufman (1990, 1994) said this proposal, which he called Macro-Waikurúan, deserved to be explored, but Campbell (1997) said that for the present it should not be accepted as anything more than a possibility, and by Campbell & Grondona (2012) he no longer bothers to evaluate it.
...
Wikipedia