Macro-Panoan languages

{{Short description|Proposed language family of South America}}

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{{Infobox language family

|name=Macro-Panoan

|acceptance=controversial

|region=southern South America

|familycolor=American

|family=Proposed language family

|child1=Pano–Takanan (?)

|child2=Mosetén–Chon (?)

|glotto=none

}}

Macro-Panoan is a hypothetical proposal linking four language families of Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina that Kaufman (1994) says "seems promising".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. 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.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}}.

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• Macro–Panoan
• Pano–Takanan (?)
• Mosetén–Chon (?)
• Mosetenan
• Chonan ({{extinct}})

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