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Harakmbut-Katukinan

South American Language Families

Harakmbut-Katukinan is a language family proposal linking the South American indigenous language families Harakmbut and Katukinan, with reasonably good evidence supporting the connection. The Glottolog database does not accept the grouping, stating that the pronouns, numerals and bound morphology it relies on are not genuinely cognate, while researcher Marcelo Jolkesky has proposed adding the Arawan languages to the family as well.

Facts
Region
South America (Harakmbut in Peru, Katukinan in Brazil) 1
Proto-Language Status
Reasonably good lexical evidence links Harakmbut and Katukinan, per Jolkesky 2011, who also adds the Arawan family to the grouping; Glottolog does not accept it, stating the pronouns, numerals and bound morphology show no cognation. 1
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1. Wikipedia: Harakmbut-Katukinan Languages
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  • lead section, sentence 1
    Harákmbut-Katukinan is a language family linking the South American indigenous language families Harákmbut and Katukinan.
  • lead section, sentences 2-3
    There is reasonably good evidence that the two are related. Glottolog does not accept it, stating that the pronouns, numerals, or bound morphology are not cognate.
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Wikidata: Harakmbut-Katukinan
Wikidata Q17107635, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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