TheMacro-Jibaro proposal, also known as(Macro-)Andean, is a language proposal ofMorris Swadesh and other historical linguists. The two families,Jivaroan andCahuapanan are most frequently linked, the isolates less often. Documentation ofUrarina is underway as of 2006, but Gününa Küne (regarded as aChonan language)^[1] and Huarpe are extinct. Kaufman (1994) linked Huarpe instead to theMuran languages andMatanawi (seeMacro-Warpean), but as of 1990 found the Jibaro–Cahuapanan connection plausible.^[2] It forms one part of his expanded 2007 suggestion forMacro-Andean.^[3]

David Payne (1981) proposes thatCandoshi is related toJivaroan (Chicham), which Payne calls Shuar. Together, Shuar and Candoshi make up a putative Shuar-Candoshi family, for which Payne (1981) provides a tentative reconstruction of Proto-Shuar-Candoshi.

• Payne, David Lawrence. 1981. "Bosquejo fonológico del Proto-Shuar-Candoshi: evidencias para una relación genética."Revista del Museo Nacional 45. 323-377.

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