Mocovi Language Family Tree
Guaicuruan languages Guaicuruan (Guaykuruan, Waikurúan, Guaycuruano, Guaikurú, Guaicurú, Guaycuruana) is a language familyspoken in northern Argentina, western Paraguay, and Brazil (Mato Grosso do Sul).
Family division
Guaicuruan/Waikurúan languages are often classified as follows:
Resource: http://sussle.org/t/Kadiweu_language
Family division
Guaicuruan/Waikurúan languages are often classified as follows:
- Kadiweu (also known as Caduveo, Kadiwéu, Mbayá-Guaycuru, Mbayá, Guaicurú, Waikurú, Ediu-Adig)
- Southern Guaicuruan
- Pilagá (also known as Pilacá)
- Toba (also known as Qom, Chaco Sur, Namqom)
- Mocoví (also known as Mbocobí, Mokoví, Moqoyt)
- Abipón (also known as Callaga, Kalyaga, Abipon) (†)
- Eastern Guaicuruan
- Toba is spoken in the eastern part of the Chaco and Formosa provinces of Argentina, in southern Paraguay, and in the eastern part of Bolivia; there are approximately 25,000 speakers. The Guaicuruan Toba language here should not be confused with the Mascoy language of the Mascoyan family which is also called Toba (or Toba-Emok, Toba-Maskoy).
- Mocoví, with about 7,000 speakers, is spoken in Argentina in the northern part of Santa Fe and southern Chaco provinces.
- Abipón, which was spoken in the eastern part of Chaco province, Argentina, is now extinct and was very closely related to the other languages in the southern branch
Resource: http://sussle.org/t/Kadiweu_language