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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 ...
Rule-based, shallow transfer; all programs and language data are free and open source Babylon: Windows, Mac: Proprietary software: Depends on license ($9.90–$89 for one license) 10.3: No: Prompts to install the Babylon Toolbar, a browser hijacker which is difficult to remove. [2] [3] DeepL: Cross-platform (web application) SaaS
Jivaro or Jibaro, also spelled Hivaro or Hibaro, may refer to: Jíbaro (Puerto Rico), mountain-dwelling peasants in Puerto Rico; Jíbaro music, a Puerto Rican musical genre; Jivaroan peoples, indigenous peoples in northern Peru and eastern Ecuador; Jívaro people or Shuar, one of the Jivaroan peoples
Shiwiar, also known as Achuar, Jivaro and Maina, is a Chicham language spoken along the Pastaza and Bobonaza rivers in Ecuador. Shiwiar is one of the thirteen indigenous languages of Ecuador. [ 2 ] All of these indigenous languages are endangered.
Macro-Jibaro Andean (controversial) Geographic distribution Amazon Linguistic classification Proposed language family Subdivisions Jivaroan Cahuapanan Urarina Puelche † ? Huarpe † ? Candoshi Language codes ISO 639-3 – Glottolog None The Macro-Jibaro proposal, also known as (Macro-)Andean, is a language proposal of Morris Swadesh and other historical linguists. The two families, Jivaroan ...