The Macro-Jibaro proposal, also known as (Macro-)Andean, is a language proposal of Morris Swadesh

Morris Swadesh

Morris Swadesh was an influential and controversial American linguist. In his work, he applied basic concepts in historical linguistics to the Indigenous languages of the Americas...

 and other historical linguists. The two families, Jivaroan

Jivaroan languages

Jivaroan is a small language family, or perhaps a language isolate, of northern Peru and eastern Ecuador.-Family division:Jivaroan consists of 4 languages:-Genetic relations:...

 and Cahuapanan

Cahuapanan languages

The Cahuapanan languages include two languages, Chayahuita and Jebero. They are spoken by more than 11,300 people in Peru. Chayahuita is spoken by most of that number, but Jebero is almost extinct....

 are most frequently linked, the isolates less often. Documentation of Urarina

Urarina language

Urarina is a language spoken in Peru, specifically in the Loreto Region of Northwest Peru, by the Urarina people. There are only around 3000 speakers alive today according to the 2002 Ethnologue. It uses a Latin script...

 is underway as of 2006, but Puelche and Huarpe are extinct. Kaufman (1994) linked Huarpe instead to the Muran languages

Muran languages

Muran is a small language family of Amazonas, Brazil.-Family division:Muran consists of 4 languages:# Mura †# Pirahã # Bohurá †# Yahahí †...

 and Matanawi

Matanawi language

Matanawi was a divergent Amazonian language that appears to be distantly related to the Muran languages....

 (see Macro-Warpean

Macro-Warpean

Macro-Warpean is a provisional proposal by Kaufman that connected the extinct Huarpe language with the previously connected Muran and Matanawí . Morris Swadesh had included Huarpe in his Macro-Jibaro proposal....

), but as of 1990 found the Jibaro-Cahuapanan connection plausible. It forms one part of his expanded 2007 suggestion for Macro-Andean

Macro-Andean

Macro-Andean is a speculative proposal by Kaufman linking languages of the northern Andes.Kaufman found lexical support for proposals linking the Jivaro–Cahuapanan families as suggested by Swadesh and others. By 2007 he had tentatively added Saparo–Yawan, which is itself provisional, and...

.