Macro-Gê languages

Macro-Gê languages

Infobox Language family
name=Macro-Jê
altname=Macro-Gê
region=Brazil
familycolor=American
fam1=Je-Tupi-Carib?
child1=Jê
child2=Borôro
child3=Maxakalían
child4=Kamakã
child5=Purían
child6=Karirí
child7=Krenák (Botocudo)
child8="Rikbaktsa"
child9="Karajá"
child10="Ofayé"

Macro-Jê (also spelled Macro-Gê) is a medium-sized language stock in South America centered around the Jê language family, first proposed in 1926 and undergoing moderate modifications since then. Kaufman (1990) finds the proposal "probable".

*Jê-Kaingang (16 languages in three branches: Kaingáng [18,000 speakers of four languages] , and northern and southern Jê languages such as Xavánte [8000 speakers] )
*Krenák (Botocudo)
*Borôro
*Kamakã [extinct]
*Karajá
*Karirí [extinct]
*Maxakalían
*Ofayé (Opaie)
*Purían [extinct]
*Rikbaktsá

Eduardo Ribeiro of the University of Chicago finds no evidence to classify Fulniô (Yatê) or Guató as Macro-Je, "pace" Kaufman, nor Otí and Chiquitano, "pace" Greenberg.

These languages share irregular morphology with the Tupi and Carib families, and Rodrigues (2000) and Ribeiro connect them all as a Je-Tupi-Carib family.


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