Guaicuruan (Guaykuruan, Waikurúan, Guaycuruano, Guaikurú, Guaicuru, Guaycuruana) is a language family spoken in northern Argentina , western Paraguay , and Brazil ( Mato Grosso do Sul ). The speakers of the languages are often collectively called the Guaycuru peoples . For the most part, the Guaycuruans lived in the Gran Chaco and were nomadic and warlike, until finally subdued by the various countries of the region in the 19th century.
5-608: Jorge A. Suárez includes Guaicuruan with Charruan in a hypothetical Waikuru-Charrúa stock. Morris Swadesh includes Guaicuruan along with Matacoan , Charruan , and Mascoian within his Macro-Mapuche stock. Both proposals appear to be obsolete. There is a clear binary split between Northern Guaicuruan (Kadiwéu) and Southern Guaicuruan according to Nikulin (2019). Guaicuruan/Waikurúan languages are often classified as follows: Abipón, Guachí, and Payaguá all are extinct . Lyle Campbell (2012) classifies Guachi and Payagua each as language isolates . Harriet Klein argues against
10-679: A doctorate at Cornell University , studying with Charles Hockett . In 1968, he published his first book, a grammar of the Guaraní language , coauthored with Emma Gregores, a reworking of his doctoral dissertation. He subsequently taught in Argentina until 1969 when he moved to Mexico where he married Mexican linguist Yolanda Lastra , his second wife. In Mexico, he dedicated himself to the study of indigenous Mexican languages, working conjointly with his wife he carried out extensive dialectological surveys of Nahuatl and he conducted in-depth field work of
15-540: The Tlapanec language (Me'phaa), writing the first full grammar of the language. In 1983 he published a widely influential book on Mesoamerican languages . He was also the editor of the monograph series Archivo de Lenguas Indígenas de México . In Mexico he was affiliated with El Colegio de México (1969–1972), the department of linguistics at the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (1972–1975),
20-524: The assumption that Kadiweu is Guaicuruan. Most others accept the inclusion of Kadiweu into the family. The Guachi were absorbed by the Mbayá. The similarities with the Mbayá language may be due to borrowing rather than a familial relationship. Internal classification of the Guaicuruan languages by Mason (1950): Possible or doubtful Guaicuruan languages listed by Mason (1950): Loukotka (1968) lists
25-620: The following basic vocabulary items for the Guaicuruan languages. Jorge A. Su%C3%A1rez Jorge Alberto Suárez (29 July 1927 – 24 February 1985) was an Argentinian linguist specializing in Mexican indigenous languages . He was born in Villa María in the province of Córdoba in Argentina, and was educated in Buenos Aires , first as a high school teacher. Along with his first wife, Emma Gregores, from 1959 to 1961 he finished
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