Barasana (alternate names Barazana, Panenua, Pareroa, or Taiwano[1] is an exonym applied to an Amazonian people, considered distinct from the Taiwano, though the dialect of the latter is almost identical to that of the Barasana, and outside observers can detect only minute differences between the two languages.[2][3] They are a Tucanoan group located in the eastern part of the Amazon Basin in Vaupés Department in Colombia (Apaporis River) and Amazonas State in Brazil. As of 2000, there were at least 500 Barasanas in Colombia, although some recent estimates place the figure as high as 1,950.[4][5][6] A further 40 live on the Brazilian side, in the municipalities of Japurá and São Gabriel da Cachoeira.[7]
The Barasana refers to themselves as the jebá.~baca, or people of the jaguar (Jebá "jaguar" is their mythical ancestor).[8]
^Hugh-Jones, Stephen (1988) [1979]. The palm and the Pleiades : initiation and cosmology in northwest Amazonia (1st pbk ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521358903.
^Stephen Hugh-Jones, The Palm and the Pleiades, p.23
^Christine Jones,From the Milk River.p.12.
^Determining their exact number is difficult, because inclusion in the group is determined by one’s father’s language. The figure of 500 refers to this Vaupés group, and excludes people whose mother language is Barasana.
^See Gomez-Imbert, Elsa; Michael Kenstowicz (October 2000). "Barasana Tone and Accent". International Journal of American Linguistics. 66 (4): 461. doi:10.1086/466437. JSTOR 1265845.
^For the figure of 1950 see Christopher Moseley, ed. (2010). Encyclopedia of the world's endangered languages (1. publ. in pbk. ed.). London: Routledge. p. 115. ISBN 978-0415563314., and Bignell, Paul (13 December 2009). "The beckoning silence: Why half of the world's languages are in serious danger of dying out". The Independent.
^"Conselho Indigenista Missionário". CIMI. 28 September 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2015.
^Gomez-Imbert, Elsa; Michael Kenstowicz (October 2000). "Barasana Tone and Accent". International Journal of American Linguistics. 66 (4): 461. doi:10.1086/466437. JSTOR 1265845.
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