Explore: Witoto Language

The Witoto (also Huitoto or Uitoto) are an Indigenous people in southern Colombia and northern Peru. The Witoto people were once composed of 100 villages

Witoto, Huitoto or Uitoto is an indigenous American language spoken by the Witoto people, an indigenous group living in Colombia and in the neighbouring

Bora–Witóto (also Bora–Huitoto, Bora–Uitoto, or, ambiguously, Witotoan) is a proposal to unite the Boran and Witotoan language families of southwestern

occasionally known as Huitoto–Ocaina to distinguish it from Bora–Witoto) is a small language family of southeastern Colombia (Amazonas Department) and the

Bora–Witoto, Guajiboan, Arawakan, Cariban, Barbacoan, and Saliban language families. There are currently about 850,000 speakers of native languages, however

also to the Nipode language (Witoto Muinane) of the Witotoan family. Aschmann (1993) proposed that the Boran and Witotoan language families were related

languages and isolated languages. In northern Peru, there are 5 small families of languages: Cahuapana, Chicham, Zápara, Peba-yagua, and Bora-witoto.

their second language of Spanish. [citation needed] Early linguistic investigators thought that Bora was related to the Huitoto (Witoto) language, but there

River) as the location of the Urequena language. Terrence Kaufman places it in the proposed Bora–Witoto language family. Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery

Loudspeakers with a range of a mile were used to broadcast messages in the Witoto language to the children, advising them to stay in one location so that they