Saparo–Yawan (Zaparo–Yaguan, Zaparo–Peba) is a language family proposal uniting two small language families of the westernAmazon. It was first proposed by Swadesh (1954), and continues through Payne (1984) and Kaufman (1994).^[1]

There are also fourlanguage isolates and otherwiseunclassified languages which have been indirectly linked to Saparo–Yawan, and for convenience they are included here. Tovar (1984) proposed a connection between Zaparoan and the otherwise unclassified Taushiro; Stark (1985) and Gordon (2005) see a connection with the extinct Omurano language. The extinct Awishiri and the Candoshi isolate have lexical similarities with Taushiro, Omurano, and each other; however, the four languages also have lexical similarities with Zaparoan,Jivaroan, andArawakan. These six languages and families in the table at right havenot been linked in any coherent fashion. Given that Candoshi is well described, this is something that may be resolved relatively soon.

This forms part of Kaufman'sMacro-Andean proposal:

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