Guaicuruan languages

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The Guaicuruan languages are a small family of indigenous languages historically spoken by hunter-gatherer and semi-nomadic peoples of the Gran Chaco region in South America, primarily in parts of Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil.

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Label Occurrences
Guaicuruan languages canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous languages of the Americas
language family
arealContactWith Guaycuru-speaking groups (historical neighbors)
Matacoan languages NERFINISHED
Tupian languages NERFINISHED
associatedEthnicGroups Abipón people NERFINISHED
Kadiweu people NERFINISHED
Mocoví people NERFINISHED
Pilagá people NERFINISHED
Toba Qom people NERFINISHED
classificationStatus generally accepted as a distinct family
continent South America
documentationStatus unevenly documented across languages
familyColor Guaicuruan NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution border areas of Brazil
northern Argentina NERFINISHED
western Paraguay
hasMemberLanguage Abipón NERFINISHED
Kadiweu NERFINISHED
Mocoví NERFINISHED
Payaguá (often classified here or nearby)
Pilagá NERFINISHED
Toba Qom NERFINISHED
historicalEconomyOfSpeakers hunting and gathering
semi-nomadic pastoralism and raiding
historicalStatus historically spoken in Gran Chaco
languageStatus several languages endangered
some languages extinct
linguisticArea Chaco linguistic area NERFINISHED
notableLanguage Kadiweu NERFINISHED
Mocoví NERFINISHED
Toba Qom NERFINISHED
primaryCountriesToday Argentina GENERATED
Brazil GENERATED
Paraguay GENERATED
region Gran Chaco NERFINISHED
researchField American indigenous linguistics
spokenIn Argentina NERFINISHED
Brazil NERFINISHED
Gran Chaco NERFINISHED
Paraguay NERFINISHED
statusOfFamily small language family
subfamilyOf Mataco–Guaicuru (proposed) NERFINISHED
timeDepth pre-Columbian origin
typicalSpeakers hunter-gatherer peoples
semi-nomadic peoples
writingSystem Latin script (for some modern languages)

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Araucanian languages languageContact Guaicuruan languages
Payaguá people languageFamily Guaicuruan languages