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The Kalapalo and three other Upper Xingu groups – the Kuikuro, Matipu, and Nahukuá – speak dialects of a language belonging to the Southern Guiana branch of the Karib language family. Their closest linguistic relatives are the Yekuana (Makiritare) and the Hixkaryana, the former found in southern Venezuela and northern Roraima (Brazil), the latter in northern Pará (Brazil).
01:: Kalapalo man watching Egitsu (Kwarup).
Photo: Beto Ricardo, 2002

Ellen Basso
anthropologist, University of Arizona (EUA)
ebasso@u.arizona.edu
June 2002
 
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