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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.
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 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. Consequently, historical sources record either one name for all, or a plethora names of many small Jivaroan tribes, each the name of a different river.
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
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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 ...
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