Puinavean languages

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Puinavean (also Makú, Puinávean, Puinave-Macú, Puinave-Maku, Puinaveano) is a language family of Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. Makú is the Portuguese name, Puinaveano is the Spanish. The name Makú is pejorative, being derived from the Jeral (a Tupian language) word meaning "slave, underling".

The Puinavean family should not be confused with the Maku language, which is also known as Macu or Makú. There are phylum proposals linking the Maku isolate with Puinavean.

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[edit] Family division

Puinavean consists of 9 languages:

A. Kuri-Dou
1. Kuri-Dou (†)
B. Hupda group
2. Hupda (a.k.a. Hupdë, Ubde, Jupda, Hupdá, Ubdé)
3. Yuhup (a.k.a. Yuhupde, Yahup)
C. Kaburí group
4. Nadöb (a.k.a. Nadëb, Nadɨb, Hahöb, Shuriwai, Guariba, Wariva, Kaborí)
5. Kamán (a.k.a. Kamã, Dâw)
D. Guariba
6. Guariba (a.k.a. Wariwa, Wariva)
E. Kakwa group
7. Cacua (a.k.a. Kakua, Bara-Makú)
8. Nukak (a.k.a. Nukak-Macú, Nɨkâk, Macú del Guaviare, Guaviare Macusa, Nukak Maku)
F. Puinave
9. Puinave (a.k.a. Guaipunavi, Waipunavi)

Kuri-Dou is now extinct; it had 2 varieties: Kurikuriaí and Dou.

Kaufman (1994) lists Hupda as a single language with 4 varieties: Tikié, Hupda, Yuhup, and Papurí. Pozzobon (1997) and Gordon (2005) list Hupda and Yuhup as separate languages.

Guariba is listed in Kaufman (1994), but does not appear in Gordon (2005). It is listed as an alternate name in Pozzobon (1997) (?) .

Pozzobon (1997) groups Nukak with Cacua in a Kakwa grouping while Kaufman (1994) lists them separately.

Henley, Mattéi-Müller and Reid (1996) presented evidences in order to include Hoti language (a.k.a. Hodï or Yuwana) into this family.

Gordon (2005) lists Puinave as a language isolate while Rivet (from 1920), Kaufman (1994) and Pozzobon (1997) include within this family.

[edit] Genetic relations

Puinavean is sometimes associated with a hypothetical Macro-Puinavean family consisting of the Puinavean and Katukinan families and the Ahuaqué, Kaliana, and Maku isolates (additionally Ahuaqué, Kalianan, and Maku are placed together in a proposed Kalianan sub-grouping).

Macro-Puinavean is included in Joseph Greenberg's larger Macro-Tucanoan stock. Another larger grouping is Morris Swadesh's Macro-Makú.

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[edit] Bibliography

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  • Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
  • Henley, Paul; Marie-Claude Mattéi-Müller y Howard Reid (1996): "Cultural and linguistic affinities of the foraging people of North Amazonia: a new perspective"; Antropológica 83: 3-37. Caracas.
  • 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 0-292-70414-3.
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  • Pozzobon, Jorge (1997). Langue, société et numération chez les Indiens Makú (Haut Rio Negro, Brésil). Jounal de la Société de Américanistes de París 83: 159-172. París.
  • Rivet, Paul y Constant Tastevin 1920: "Affinités du Makú et du Puinave"; Journal de la Société des Américanistes de París, n.s. t XII: 69-82. París.
  • Rivet, Paul; P. P. Kok y C. Tastevin 1925: "Nouvele contributión a l'étude de la langue Makú; International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 3, n. 24, p.p. 129-132. New York.