Basic Data

• Name: Waurá
• Alternative Names: Uaura, Aura
• Language Classification: Arawak
• Population: 300
• Location: Xingú Park, Mato Grosso

About the Waurá

Waurá live in the Parque Indigena do Xingu. There are 9 communities of "Xinguan" culture Indians, in 11 villages in the southern part of the reservation, and 6+ non-Xinguan culture communities in the northern part. The languages spoken are from various different language trunks or families.

The Waurá are basically monolingual. Waurá live in the Parque Indigena do Xingu. One main village, also man a "farm" village and Posto Indigena de Vigilância

Total Waurá population in village 264 plus 4 foreign wives (Trumai, Fulniô, Yawalapiti-Kuikuro, Mehinaco).

Waurá, women, children and more than half the men virtually monolingual, very few no much Portuguese, and what they do know is mainly for buying and selling.

Publications

Richards, Joan, 1973, Dificuldades na Análise da Possessão Nominal na língua Waurá (in Portuguese, 116 kB), Série Lingüística Nº 1: 11-29.

———, 1977, Orações em Waurá (in Portuguese, 130 kB), Série Lingüística Nº 7: 141-184.

———, 1988, A Estrutura Verbal Waurá (in Portuguese, 155 kB), Série Lingüística Nº 9, Vol. 2: 197-218.