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Guaycuru or Guaykuru is a generic term for several ethnic groups indigenous to the Gran Chaco region of South America, speaking several related Mataco–Guaycuru languages. At the time of the European conquest, the territory of the Guaycuru tribes extended into the present-day countries of Argentina (north of the Santa Fe Province), Bolivia, Paraguay, and Brazil (south of Corumbá.〔 The name is written ''guaycurú'' or ''guaicurú'' in Spanish (plural ''guaycurúes'' or ''guaicurúes''), and ''guaicuru'' in Portuguese (plural ''guaicurus''). It was originally an offensive epithet given to some Mbayá tribes of Paraguay by the Guarani, meaning "savage" or "barbarian", which later got extended to the whole group. It has also been used in the past to include other tribes of the region, but is now restricted to those speaking a Mataco–Guaycuru language. ==Divisions== The major extant branches of the Guaycuru are:〔 Alain Fabre (2006), ''Los guaykurú'', Part 3 of ''Los pueblos del Gran Chaco y sus lenguas''. Suplemento Antropológico, volume 41 issue 2, pp. 7–132. Asunción, Paraguay. (Online version ) updated 2009-07-30, accessed on 2009-11-23. 〕 *Mocoví *Toba *Pilagá *Kadiweu The Mocoví, Toba, and Pilagá call themselves ''qom'' and appear to forma linguistic and ethnic continuum.〔 They have been placed together with the Abipón in the "Southern" division, while the Kadiweu are placed by themselves in a "Northern" division. The placement of the Payaguá in this classification is still controversial.〔 Some authors, such as Quevedo, Hunt, Mason, Greenberg and Viegas Barros, have joined the Guaycuru and the Mataguay languages into a larger Mataco–Guaycuru language family, but it is not clear yet whether the similarities between the vocabularies of the two families are due to a common origin or to borrowing.〔 Other Guaycuru groups have become extinguished over the last 500 years: *Abipón *Mbayá (believed to be ancestral to the Kadiweu) *Payaguá 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guaycuru peoples」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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