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{{Short description|Proposed language family}}
{{Infobox language family
  |name=Mataguayo–Guaicuru
  |altname=Macro-Waikurúan
  |acceptance=proposed
  |region=South America
  |familycolor=American
  |family=Proposed [[Social:Language family|language family]]
  |child1=[[Social:Matacoan languages|Matacoan]]
  |child2=[[Social:Guaicuruan languages|Guaicuruan]]
  |glotto=none
  |map=Mataco-Guaicuru Languages.png
|mapcaption=
}}

'''Mataguayo–Guaicuru''', '''Mataco–Guaicuru''' or '''Macro-Waikurúan''' is a proposed [[Social:Language family|language family]] consisting of the [[Social:Matacoan languages|Mataguayan]] and [[Social:Guaicuruan languages|Guaicuruan]] languages. Pedro Viegas Barros claims to have demonstrated it.<ref>Pedro Viegas Barros (1992-1993). ¿Existe una relación genética entre las lenguas mataguayas y guaycurúes? Em: J. Braunstein (ed.), Hacia una nueva carta étnica del Gran Chaco V, 193-213. Las Lomitas (Formosa): Centro del Hombre Antiguo Chaqueño (CHACO).</ref><ref>Pedro Viegas Barros (2006). La hipótesis macro-guaicurú. Semejanzas gramaticales guaicurú-mataguayo. Revista UniverSOS, 3:183-212. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia.</ref><ref>Pedro Viegas Barros (2013). La hipótesis de parentesco Guaicurú-Mataguayo: estado actual de la cuestión. Revista Brasileira de Linguística Antropológica, 5.2:293-333.</ref> These languages are spoken in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia.

==Genetic relations==
Jorge Suárez linked Guaicuruan and [[Social:Charruan languages|Charruan]] in a ''Waikuru-Charrúa'' stock. Kaufman (2007: 72) has also added [[Social:Lule–Vilela languages|Lule–Vilela]] and [[Social:Zamucoan languages|Zamucoan]],<ref>Kaufman, Terrence. 2007. South America. In: R. E. Asher and Christopher Moseley (eds.), ''Atlas of the World’s Languages (2nd edition)'', 59–94. London: Routledge.</ref> while Morris Swadesh proposed a ''Macro-Mapuche'' stock that included Matacoan, Guaicuruan, Charruan, and Mascoyan. Campbell (1997) has argued that those hypotheses should  be further investigated, though he no longer intends to evaluate it.<ref name="Campbell-SAmerica">{{cite book |last=Campbell |first=Lyle |editor1-last=Grondona |editor1-first=Verónica |editor2-last=Campbell |editor2-first=Lyle |date=2012 |title=The Indigenous Languages of South America |chapter=Classification of the indigenous languages of South America |series=The World of Linguistics |volume=2 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=59–166 |isbn=9783110255133}}</ref>

==Language contact==
Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the [[Social:Arawakan languages|Arawakan]], [[Social:Tupian languages|Tupian]], Trumai, and Ofayé language families due to contact, pointing to an origin of Proto-Mataguayo-Guaicuruan in the Upper Paraguay River basin.<ref name="Jolkesky-2016">{{cite thesis|last=Jolkesky |first=Marcelo Pinho de Valhery |date=2016 |url=http://www.etnolinguistica.org/tese:jolkesky-2016-arqueoecolinguistica |title=Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas |type=Ph.D. dissertation |location=Brasília |publisher=University of Brasília |edition=2}}</ref>{{rp|439}}

==Classification==
Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):<ref name="Jolkesky-2016"/>

({{extinct}} = extinct)

{{tree list}}
*'''Macro-Mataguayo-Guaykuru'''
**''Payagua'' {{extinct}}
**''Guachi'' {{extinct}}
**[[Social:Guaicuruan languages|Guaykuru]]
***''Kadiweu''
***Qom-Abipon
****''Abipon'' {{extinct}}
****Qom
*****Qom, Southern: ''Mokovi''
*****Qom, Northern: ''Pilaga''; ''Toba''
**[[Social:Matacoan languages|Mataguayo]]
***Mataguayo, Western
****Chorote: ''Chorote Iyojwa'ja''; ''Chorote Iyo'wujwa''
****Wichi: ''Wichi Guisnay''; ''Wichi Nokten''; ''Wichi Vejoz''
***Mataguayo, Eastern
****''Maka''
****''Nivakle''
{{tree list/end}}

==Chaco linguistic area==
Campbell and Grondona (2012) consider the languages to be part of a ''Chaco'' linguistic area. Common Chaco areal features include SVO word order and active-stative verb alignment.<ref name="Campbell-Chaco">{{cite book |last1=Campbell |first1=Lyle |last2=Grondona |first2=Verónica |editor1-last=Grondona |editor1-first=Verónica |editor2-last=Campbell |editor2-first=Lyle |date=2012 |title=The Indigenous Languages of South America |chapter=Languages of the Chaco and Southern Cone |series=The World of Linguistics |volume=2 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=625–668 |isbn=9783110255133}}</ref>

==See also==
*Gran Chaco people

==References==
{{Reflist}}
* Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). ''Language in the Americas''. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
* 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.&nbsp;13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. {{ISBN|0-292-70414-3}}.
* Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), ''Atlas of the world's languages'' (pp.&nbsp;46–76). London: Routledge.


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