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The most promising external connections are with the Cahuapanan languages and perhaps a few other language isolates in proposals variously called Jívaro-Cahuapana (Hívaro-Kawapánan) (Jorge Suárez and others) or Macro-Jibaro or Macro-Andean (Morris Swadesh and others, with Cahuapanan, Urarina, Puelche, and maybe Huarpe).
The Shuar, also known as Jivaro, are an indigenous ethnic group that inhabits the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazonia. They are famous for their hunting skills and their tradition of head shrinking, known as Tzantsa. The Shuar language belongs to the Jivaroan linguistic family and is spoken by over 50,000 people in the region.
Shuar (which literally means "people", also known by such (now derogatory) terms as Chiwaro, Jibaro, Jivaro, or Xivaro) is an indigenous language spoken by the Shuar people of Morona Santiago Province and Pastaza Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon basin.
Jivaro family, c. 1901. Anthropologists have recognized the Jivaroan languages as distinct, but have called attention to two confounding factors. The first has to do with nomenclature: Jivaroan language speakers typically identify themselves either by their language's word for person (shuar) or by the name of the river on which they live ...
Shiwiar is a language spoken by the Achuar people of the Amazonian region of Ecuador. [3] The Achuar people also speak Spanish , Shuar , and Kichwa along with their native language, Shiwiar. [ 3 ] Shuar belongs to the same language family as Shiwiar – Jivaroan.
Huambisa, Huambiza, Wambiza, Jíbaro, Xívaro, Wampis, Maina, or Shuar-Huampis is an indigenous language of the Huambisa people of Peru.Spanish colonizers first generated the name Xívaro in the late 16th century as a way of overgeneralizing several ethnicities of similar sociopolitical statuses within the region and referring to them as savages. [2]
The Languages of the Andes. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7. Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1. Dixon & Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald (eds.), The Amazonian languages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Jivaro languages, a language family of northern Peru and eastern Ecuador; Jivaro, a 1954 American 3-D film; Jíbaro, English title Wild Dogs, a 1985 Cuban film; Lake Jivaro, a reservoir in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States; Jibaro, the final episode of season three of Love, Death + Robots which won several awards.