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Murui (Witotoan) Clause Structures

Linguistics, 1968
BRYAN BURTCH, MARY RUTH WISE
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Links Between Language and Society Among the Murui of North-West Amazonia

2021
Murui, a Witototan language spoken in southern Colombia and northern Peru, has at its disposal a number of linguistic features that mirror the structure of the Murui society, the Murui belief system, the environment the Murui people live in, and their means of subsistence. Demonstrable associations between linguistic and non-linguistic features (the so-
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Self-Perception of Identity Unity Amid Diversity in a Murui/Uitoto Myth

Journal of Posthumanism
The main objective of this article is to present the relationship among identity, language and genetics from a premise that considers the point of view of the participating group. The Murui/Uitoto indigenous people (in the Colombian Amazon) have had a self-perception of identity diversity, despite different linguistic groups and dialectal variations ...
Mabel Bohorquez
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The Murui Language and Its Speakers

2020
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Fruits for Animals: Hunting Avoidance Speech Style in Murui (Witoto, Northwest Amazonia) [PDF]

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 2015
This paper is describes the hunting avoidance speech style of the Murui, a Witoto people from southern Colombia and northern Peru. Murui men employ a special vocabulary used when hunting bigger game. It is a system of lexical substitution employed to "deceive" the animal spirits by avoidance of the utterance of the animals' names.
Katarzyna Izabela Wojtylak
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Multifaceted body parts in Murui

2020
Abstract Based on the firsthand data from Murui, a Witotoan language spoken in the Northwest Amazon, the study demonstrates how the body part terms ‘back’, ‘face’, ‘mouth, and ‘body’ grammaticalized into the domains covering spatial orientation, time, comparison, counting, and the reflexive.
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The phonological and grammatical status of Murui ‘word’

2020
Different sorts of phonological and grammatical criteria can be used to identify wordhood in Murui, a Witotoan language from Northwest Amazonia. A phonological word is determined on entirely phonological principles. Its key indicators include prosody (stress) and segmental phonology (vowel length).
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Acorhinotermes murui sp. nov. (Blattodea: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae:Rhinotermitinae), a new termite species from the Amazon basin

Zootaxa, 2023
Castro, Daniel (2023): Acorhinotermes murui sp. nov. (Blattodea: Isoptera: Rhinotermitidae: Rhinotermitinae), a new termite species from the Amazon basin. Zootaxa 5353 (3): 294-300, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5353.3.7, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5353.3 ...
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Análisis morfológico de fragmentos sobre inframundo en lengua uitoto murui (Amazonia colombiana)

Interacción, 2014
El presente documento resume el ejercicio investigativo sobre la morfología de la lengua uitoto -murui-, variedad bue de la comunidad indígena uitoto de la Amazonia colombiana, originado en el seminario de Etnolingüística de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia en el año 2000 (con Magda Parra).
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Notas sobre un relato de curanderismo de la gente de Murui

Boletin De Antropologia, 2019
En base al relato "La copa de los espíritus del bosque", del cual se hace una síntesis y se retoman distintos fragmentos, el autor hace su análisis hablando del sincretismo religioso de los indígenas Murui y Muinanes, merced a la presencia aculturadora cristiana. Se sumerge luego en la batalla de Juvenal, indígena Murui y relator, contra la enfermedad.
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