Social:Waroid languages

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Short description: Proposed language family
Waroid
(proposed)
Geographic
distribution
Caribbean and Orinoco Delta
Linguistic classificationProposed language family
Subdivisions
  • Warao
  • Macorix
  • Guanahatabey
GlottologNone

Waroid is a proposal by Granberry and Vescelius (2004) linking Warao of Venezuela with the extinct Macoris and Guanahatabey languages of the Greater Antilles.[1]

Languages

Granberry and Vescelius (2004) propose the following internal structure for the proposed Waroid family.[1]

  • Waroid
    • Warao
    • Caribbean
      • Macoris (Macorix)
        • Upper Macoris
        • Lower Macoris
      • Guanahatabey

See also

  • Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Granberry, Julian; Vescelius, Gary (2004). Languages of the Pre-Columbian Antilles. Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-5123-X.