Macro-Arawakan languages
Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean centered on the Arawakan languages and merged with Tupian languages. Sometimes, the proposal is called Tupi-Arawakan, and its central family is called Maipurean.
Proposals
Kaufman includes the following:Payne and Derbyshire have:
Jolkesky argues for the following:
According to Jolkesky, the proto-Macro-Arawakan language would have been spoken in the Middle Ucayali River Basin during the beginning of the 2nd millennium BCE, and its speakers would have produced Tutishcainyo pottery in the region.
Martins groups the Arawakan and Nadahup languages together as part of a proposed Makúan-Arawakan family, but this proposal has been rejected by Aikhenvald.
Carvalho notes that the Arawakan and Arawan families have had significant long-term mutual interaction, but does not consider the two language families to be related. According to Carvalho, the Juruá-Purus linguistic corridor had facilitated the migration of Arawakan speakers to the southern fringes of the Amazon basin.