Maku (exonym)
Maku or Maco is a pejorative term referring to several hunter-gatherer peoples of the upper Amazon, derived from an Arawakan term ma-aku "do not speak / without speech". Nimuendajú, for example, notes six peoples of Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil that are known as 'Maku'.
People
- Achagua people, Makú-Achagua
- Carabayo people, Macú-Carabayo
- Cofán people
- Dâw people
- Hup people
- Maku-Auari, the Maku of Roraima and the Auari River, Brazil and Venezuela
- Nadëb people
- Nïkâk people
- Nukak and Kakwa, Macu de Cubeo, Macu de Desano, Macu de Guanano, Macú-Paraná)
- Piaroa, Maco-Ventuari
- Puinave people
- Piaroa, Maku-Ventuari
- Wirö, Maku-Wirö, Venezuela and Colombia
- Yanomami, Macú-Yanomami
Languages
- Nadahup languages, a small language family in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela, sometimes disambiguated from other Maku languages as Makú or Macú, though those forms can apply to any of the languages, or as Makuan. Such languages include Hup, spoken by Hupda and Guariba Maku
- closely related Nukak and Kakwa
- Maku-Auari language, the 'Maku' of Roraima and the Auari River, a possible language isolate of Brazil and Venezuela
- Wirö dialect of Piaroa Maco-Hoti, spoken by the Marueta people of Venezuela
- Achagua language, Makú-Achagua.
- Arutani and Sape languages.
- Carabayo language, Macú-Carabayo.
- Cofán language a.k.a. Mako, Cofán-Makú.
- Maco-Cuyabeno was an unattested language that may have been a dialect of the Cofán language, and was spoken on the Cuyabeno River near the headwaters of the Aguarico River in southeastern Colombia.
- Piaroa language a.k.a. Maco-Ventuari. Maco-Ventuari is a language variety spoken on the Ventuari River in Venezuela that is closely related to the Piaroa language spoken today. It was documented in a 38-word list by Humboldt.
- Puinave language along the Negro and Japurá Rivers a.k.a. Mácu, Macú, Makú
- Yanomaman languages, Macú-Yanomami.