Carabayo language
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The Carabayo are an uncontacted Amazonian people of Colombia
living in at least three long house
s, one of several suspected uncontacted peoples living along the Rio Puré (now the Río Puré National Park) in the southeastern corner of the country. They are known as the Aroje to the Bora people
. Maku
and Macusa are pejorative Arawak
terms applied to many local languages, not anything specific to Carabayo.
It is often assumed that the Carabayo language and people are a continuation of the Yuri language
and people attested from the same area in the 19th century. Indeed, Colombian government publications speak of the "Yuri (Carabayo)", "Carabayo (Yuri)", or "Yuri, Aroje, or Carabayo" as a single people. However, when an accidental encounter with one of the Rio Puré peoples (perhaps the Carabayo) occurred in 1969, only 20% of the words which were collected and for which a Yuri equivalent had been recorded were cognate. This is too low a number for the 1969 Rio Puré language to be a direct descendent of Yuri, though it would appear to be in the same family. (However, the 1969 data is not accessible to scholars, and only three of the collected words are currently known.)
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
living in at least three long house
Long house
A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building built by peoples in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe and North America....
s, one of several suspected uncontacted peoples living along the Rio Puré (now the Río Puré National Park) in the southeastern corner of the country. They are known as the Aroje to the Bora people
Bora people
The Bora are an indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon, located between the Putumayo and Napo rivers. The Bora speak a Witotan language and comprise approximately 2,000 people...
. Maku
Maku language
The Borówa language, commonly known as Macu, Makú, Macó, or, to distinguish it from other languages given this name, Máku, is an unclassified language spoken on the Brazil–Venezuela border in Roraima along the Uraricoera River. The Borowa territory was formerly between the Padamo and Cunucunuma...
and Macusa are pejorative Arawak
Arawakan languages
Macro-Arawakan is a proposed language family of South America and the Caribbean based on the Arawakan languages. Sometimes the proposal is called Arawakan, in which case the central family is called Maipurean....
terms applied to many local languages, not anything specific to Carabayo.
It is often assumed that the Carabayo language and people are a continuation of the Yuri language
Yuri language
The Yuri language, also known as Karkar, is a language isolate in the Papuan languages classifications of both Wurm and Ross. There are about a thousand speakers in Papua New Guinea along the Indonesian border.-External links:*...
and people attested from the same area in the 19th century. Indeed, Colombian government publications speak of the "Yuri (Carabayo)", "Carabayo (Yuri)", or "Yuri, Aroje, or Carabayo" as a single people. However, when an accidental encounter with one of the Rio Puré peoples (perhaps the Carabayo) occurred in 1969, only 20% of the words which were collected and for which a Yuri equivalent had been recorded were cognate. This is too low a number for the 1969 Rio Puré language to be a direct descendent of Yuri, though it would appear to be in the same family. (However, the 1969 data is not accessible to scholars, and only three of the collected words are currently known.)