Basic Data

• Name: Munduruku
• Alternative Names: Mundurucu, Weidyenye, Paiquize, Pari, Caras-Pretas
• Language Classification: Tupi
• Population: 7,000 or more
• Location: Pará, Amazonas. 22 villages

About the Munduruku

The Munduruku live in 32 villages, in three areas in Pará and Amazonas. They live by hunting, fishing, gathering and agriculture. The degree of bilingualism among the Munduruku is not very high, with that of the men being greater than that of the women and children.

Publications

Crofts, Marjorie, 1971, Repeated Morphs in Munduruku (341 kB), Estudos Sobre Línguas e Culturas Indígenas: 60-80.

———, 1973, Gramática Munduruku (in Portuguese, 769 kB), Série Lingüística Nº 2.

———, 1984, Ideófonos na Narração Munduruku (in Portuguese, 90 kB), Série Lingüística Nº 11: 207-218.

———, 2003, Complexidades Sociolingüísticas Ocorrentes na Tradução da Literatura de Autoria Indígena para a Língua Nacional (88 kB, in Portuguese).

———, 2004, Aspectos da Língua Munduruku (in Portuguese, 1064 kB), Sociedade Internacional de Lingüística, Cuiabá, MT.

Sheffler, E. Margaret, 1974, Hortatory Discourse Minimums in Munduruku (166 kB)