Murui - Naie jiyakɨno - The place of origin

Authors

  • Lucio Agga Calderón ‘Kaziya Buinaima’ Tercera India community, Caraparaná, Colombia
  • Katarzyna I. Wojtylak James Cook University, Australia
  • Juan Alvaro Echeverri Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Amazonia, Colombia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2019.v15n1a25563

Keywords:

Murui, Witoto, Witotoan, Caquetá-Putumayo, People of the Center.

Abstract

This narrative tells the story of the place of origin of the Murui people. The Murui live in the Caquetá-Putumayo River Basin, which straddles the border of southern Colombia and northern Peru. Their language, Murui (also called bue), belongs to the Witotoan language family. A major theme of the narrative is one of the internal division within the Murui-Muina people (also known as ‘Witoto’) into the Murui and the Mɨnɨka. This story is shared by all the Murui-Muina clans of the Caquetá- Putumayo region. It refers to a common place of origin, the ‘Hole of Humanity’, out of which the groups emerged and became human beings.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.31513/linguistica.2018.v15n1a25563

Author Biographies

Lucio Agga Calderón ‘Kaziya Buinaima’, Tercera India community, Caraparaná, Colombia

Murui Elder and Traditional Authority of the Tercera India community, Caraparaná, Colombia

Katarzyna I. Wojtylak, James Cook University, Australia

Language and Culture Research Centre, James Cook University, Australia

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Published

2019-04-23

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019): Indigenous Languages: verbal arts

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