The Kuruaya people are an
indigenous people of Brazil. They live along the tributaries of the lower
Xingu River in the state of
Pará.
[
Currently there are approximately 159 living in their indigenous territory, the Kuruaya Indigenous Area."Kuruaya Indigenous Area."]
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Names
The Kuruaya are also known as the Caravare, Curuaia, Kuruaia,
[ or Xipaia-Kuruaia people.][
]
Language
The Kuruaya language
Kuruáya is a nearly extinct Tupian language of the state of Pará, in the Amazon region of Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Lati ...
is a Munduruku language
Munduruku is a Tupi language spoken by 10,000 people in the Tapajós River basin in north central Brazil, of which most of the women and children are monolingual.
Gomes (2006) points out that Munduruku is one of the languages of the Tupian fam ...
, which belongs to the Tupi language family. The majority of Kuruaya people now speak Portuguese.[
]
Notes
Indigenous peoples in Brazil
Indigenous peoples of the Amazon
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