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 .
7-497: Kaufman (1990) includes the following: Payne (1991) and Derbyshire (1992) have: Jolkesky (2016) argues for the following: According to Jolkesky (op. cit., 611-616), 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 (2005: 342–370) groups
14-855: Is the main headstream of the Amazon River . It rises about 110 km (68 mi) north of Lake Titicaca , in the Arequipa region of Peru and becomes the Amazon at the confluence of the Marañón close to Nauta city. The city of Pucallpa is located on the banks of the Ucayali. The Ucayali, together with the Apurímac River , the Ene River and the Tambo River , is today considered
21-602: The Arawakan and Nadahup languages together as part of a proposed Makúan-Arawakan ( Nadahup-Arawakan ) family, but this proposal has been rejected by Aikhenvald (2006: 237). Carvalho (2021) notes that the Arawakan and Arawan families have had significant long-term mutual interaction, but does not consider the two language families to be related. According to Carvalho (2021), the Juruá - Purus linguistic corridor had facilitated
28-554: The main headwater of the Amazon River , totaling a length of 2,669.9 kilometres (1,659.0 mi) from the source of the Apurímac at Nevado Mismi to the confluence of the Ucayali and Marañón Rivers : The Ucayali was first called San Miguel , then Ucayali , Ucayare , Poro , Apu-Poro , Cocama and Rio de Cuzco . Peru has organised many costly and ably-conducted expeditions to explore it. One of them (1867) claimed to have reached within 380 km (240 mi) of Lima , and
35-427: The large number of islands. The current runs from 5–6 kilometres per hour (3.1–3.7 mph), and a channel from 20–50 metres (66–164 ft) wide can always be found with a minimum depth of 1.5 m (4.9 ft). There are five difficult passes, due to the accumulation of trees and rafts of timber. Sometimes large rocks which have fallen from the mountains and spread across the riverbed cause whirlpools. The Ucayali
42-750: The little steamer "Napo" found its way up the violent currents for 124 km (77 mi) above the junction with the Pachitea River , and as far as the Tambo River, 1,240 km (770 mi) from the confluence of the Ucayali with the Amazon. The "Napo" then succeeded in ascending the Urubamba River 56 km (35 mi) upstream from its junction with the Tambo, to a point 320 km (200 mi) north of Cuzco . The Ucayali's width varies from 400–1,200 metres (1,300–3,900 ft), due to
49-464: The migration of Arawakan speakers to the southern fringes of the Amazon basin. Pronominal system of the Macro-Arawakan languages: Several words in the basic lexicon of the Macro-Arawakan languages were pointed out as possible cognates: Ucayali River 13,500 m /s (480,000 cu ft/s) The Ucayali River ( Spanish : Río Ucayali , IPA: [ˈri.o wkaˈʝali] )
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