The Flecheiros are one of the uncontacted peoples in the Javari region of the Amazon. Their ambiguous name simply means "arrow shooters".
6-676: Ethnographically, the people are similar to the Kanamarí . However, a meeting between a Kanamarí and the Flecheiros was observed, showing that the two have different languages. Their language is thus unknown and therefore unattested. In September 2017, the Brazilian government investigated a reported massacre in August of about 10 members of the tribe who were gathering eggs along a river when they were killed by gold miners. The miners had bragged about "cutting up
12-652: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Kanamar%C3%AD Kanamarí , or Katukina-Kanamari , is a Katukinan language spoken by about 650 individuals in Amazonas , Brazil . It is considered endangered . The two principal varieties, Kanamari (Canamarí) and Katukina (Catuquina), are mutually intelligible, and have both been confused with neighboring languages with the same or similar names. Synonyms and dialect names include Tshom-djapa, Tsohon-djapa, Wiri-dyapá, Pidá-dyapá, Kutiá-dyapá (Kadiu-diapa, Cutiadapa), Tucun-diapa, Bendiapa, Parawa. The term Katukina
18-446: Is characterized by ergative–absolutive alignment . The absolutive argument (i.e. the subject of intransitive verbs and the object of transitive verbs) is unmarked for case, and usually appears following the verb phrase. tyuku die wa:pa dog tyuku wa:pa die dog 'The dog died.' no-ti 2 . SG . GEN -kill paiko grandfather no-ti paiko 2.SG.GEN-kill grandfather 'You killed grandfather.' If
24-755: Is derived from the Proto- Purus term *ka-tukanɨ, meaning 'speaker of an indigenous language'. As a result, it is used to refer to a few different unrelated languages belonging to separate language families, including Panoan and Arawakan : An alveolar lateral consonant /l/ may be realized as a retroflex lateral [ ɭ ] . A velar nasal [ ŋ ] sound is often heard when following after nasal vowels. A glottal stop [ ʔ ] can be heard before word-initial vowels. A word-final /k/ may also sound unreleased [ k̚ ] . /i/ and /u/ may be realized as approximant sounds [ j ] and [ w ] , when preceding another vowel. The syntax of Kanamarí
30-400: The absolutive argument is a pronoun, it is represented by its free-standing form. ki:tan sleep idi:k 2 . SG ki:tan idi:k sleep 2.SG 'You slept.' The ergative argument (i.e. the agent of transitive verbs) is marked for genitive case. If the agent is a pronoun, it is represented by a genitive prefix (as in no -ti paiko 'you killed grandfather' above). If the agent
36-610: The bodies and throwing them in the river." The Flecheiros are the subject of a book called The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes , by Scott Wallace . The 2011 National Geographic edition details the 76-day expedition in 2002, led by famed indigenous activist Sydney Possuelo , who attempted to find the status of the Flecheiros in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land . This article related to an ethnic group in Brazil
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