The Maweti–Guarani languages of
Brazil
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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
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(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
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.
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
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,
Florianópolis
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, 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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