Macro-Panoan languages

Macro-Panoan
(controversial)
Geographic distribution	southern South America
Linguistic classification	Proposed language family
Subdivisions	Pano–Takanan (?) Mosetén–Chon (?)
Glottolog	None

Macro-Panoan is a hypothetical proposal linking four language families of Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina that Kaufman (1994) says "seems promising".^[1] The Pano–Takanan connection is widely but not unanimously accepted. Kaufman (1990) also finds the Moseten–Chon connection fairly convincing. However, the deeper connection between these two groups is more tentative.^[2]

Macro–Panoan
- Pano–Takanan (?)
- Mosetén–Chon (?)
  - Mosetenan
  - Chonan †

References

^ Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.
^ Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language history in South America: What we know and how to know more. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages (pp. 13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.