Maku languages

Makú is an indigenous language family from South America that is common in northwestern Brazil and Colombia . The language with the most speakers is Hupdé Makú with 1,300 speakers.

A distant relationship with the Puinave ( ISO 639-3: pui), which is spoken by about 2,200 people in Colombia and Venezuela , has been postulated.

structure

• Cacua [cbv]
• Dâw [kwa]
• Hupdë [jup]
• Nadëb [mbj]
• Nukak Maku [mbr]
• Yuhup [yab]

Maku	NadaHup   ProtoNadëb  Nadëb  ProtoHup  Dâw      Hoot  Jupda     Yujup  Northern Maku   Kak  Kakwa     Nukak  West  Puinave  East  Hoti

annotation

The Makú languages ​​are not to be confused with the genetically isolated single language Máku from Roraima , which was last spoken in northern Brazil and is now practically extinct. According to Terrence Kaufman (1990) there could be another connection between this language and the Arutani-Sapé .

See also

• Maku (ethnic group)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Robert MW Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Máku. In: Robert MW Dixon, Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 361-362.

literature

• Harald Haarmann : Small Lexicon of Languages. From Albanian to Zulu (= Beck series. 1432). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47558-2 .
• Silvana de Andrade Martins, Valteir Martins: Makú. In: Robert MW Dixon , Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (Eds.): The Amazonian Languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 251-267.

Web links

• Maku (Language Family). In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages ​​of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016.
• Puinave. In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages ​​of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016.