Nadahup languages

Makú is an indigenous language family of South America, which is widespread in north-western Brazil and Colombia. The speaker is the richest language Hupdé Makú with 1,300 speakers.

A distant relationship with the Puinave (ISO 639-3: pui ), which is in Colombia and Venezuela, spoken by about 2,200 people, has been postulated.

Structure

  • Cacua [ cbv ]
  • Daw [ kwa ]
  • Hupdë [ jup ]
  • Nadëb [ mbj ]
  • Nukak Makú [ mbr ]
  • Yuhup [ yab ]

Nadëb

Daw

Jupda

Yujup

Kakwa

Nukak

Puinave

Hoti

Note

The Makú languages ​​are not to be confused with the genetically isolated single language Maku language of Roraima, which was last spoken in northern Brazil and is now virtually extinct. According to Kaufman ( 1990) could be a further compound this language exist with the Arutani - Sapé.

Nukak people
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