Miraña, an endangered Witotoan language spoken in the Colombian Amazon region, has
an inventory of over 60 noun class markers, most of which denote the shape of nominal …

Many Amazonian systems of nominal classification have been perceived as constituting a
descriptive and typological challenge. The proposal presented here is to consider many of …

In A Grammar of Murui (Bue), Katarzyna Wojtylak provides the first complete description of
Murui, an endangered Witotoan language, spoken by the Murui-Muina (Witoto) people from …

Nominal classification systems are quite widespread in Amazonia. However, their existence
was generally unknown to typologists prior to the late 1980s. For example, the works of …

In view of the previous sparsity of data, the existing claims with regard to a genealogical
classification of the Aikanã, Kanoê, and Kwaza languages of Rondônia, on the Brazilian …

Baniwa of Içana/Kurripako, a North Arawak language, has two genders and numerous
classifiers employed in various morphosyntactic environments: with numbers, as …

The Yagua (Peba-Yaguan) classifier system shows a number of structural isomorphisms
with Bora-Witotoan classifier systems. This is seen in the use of classifiers to derive new …

Para los miraña, pueblo indígena que habita el medio y bajo río Caquetá (región amazónica
colombiana), saber cocinar implica saber cultivar, cosechar, pescar y recolectar. Dicho …

El proceso doméstico de filtrar almidón sirve de punto de partida para interpretar una
cosmología nativa amerindia. En la primera parte, el autor reseña los aportes de la …

The tonal system of Bora, a Witotoan language of Colombia and Peru, has high and low
tones. Most tonal phenomena refer to low—not high—tone. For example, virtually all …