Macro-Arawakan languages


Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean centered on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes, the proposal is called Arawakan, and the central family is called Maipurean.

Proposals

Kaufman includes the following:
Payne and Derbyshire have:
Jolkesky argues for the following:
According to Jolkesky, the proto-Macro-Arawakan language would have been spoken in the Middle Ucayali River Basin during the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, and its speakers would have produced Tutishcainyo pottery in the region.
Martins groups the Arawakan and Nadahup languages together as part of a proposed Makúan-Arawakan family, but this proposal has been rejected by Aikhenvald.