The Maweti–Guarani languages of
Brazil form a branch of the
Tupian language family according to
Meira and Drude (2015).
[Meira, Sérgio and Sebastian Drude (2015). "A preliminary reconstruction of proto-Maweti-Guarani segmental phonology". ''Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, série Ciências Humanas'', 10(2):275-296. ] The branch was originally proposed by
Rodrigues
Rodrigues (french: Île Rodrigues, link=yes ; Creole: ) is a autonomous outer island of the Republic of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, about east of Mauritius. It is part of the Mascarene Islands, which include Mauritius and Réunion. Rodr ...
(1984), and is also accepted by Jolkesky (2016).
[Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. ]
Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas
'. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.
Classification
*Maweti–Guarani
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Mawe''
**Aweti–Guarani
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Aweti''
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Tupi-Guarani
Proto-language
Reconstruction of Proto-Maweti–Guarani, along with
Mawe,
Aweti, and Proto-
Tupi–Guarani cognates according to Meira and Drude (2015).
For a list of Proto-Maweti-Guarani reconstructions by Corrêa-da-Silva (2013),
[Corrêa-da-Silva, Beatriz Carretta (2013). O mundo a partir do léxico: Reconstruindo a realidade social Mawé-Awetí-Tupí-Guaraní. ''Revista Brasileira De Linguística Antropológica'', 5(2), 385-400. https://doi.org/10.26512/rbla.v5i2.16271] see the corresponding
Portuguese article.
References
*Mello, A. A. S. ''Estudo histórico da família lingüística Tupi-Guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais''. Ph.D. dissertation,
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina,
Florianópolis
Florianópolis () is the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, in the South region of Brazil. The city encompasses Santa Catarina Island and surrounding small islands, as well as part of the mainland. It has a populat ...
, 2000.
*Rodrigues, A. D.; Dietrich, W. On the linguistic relationship between Mawe and Tupi-Guarani. ''Diachronica'', v. 14, n. 2, p. 265-304, 1997.
Tupian languages
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