Jamamadi (also known as Yamamadí or Canamanti) is an Arauan language spoken by about 200 people scattered over Brazil.
The language has an Object Subject Verb word order, and is frequently cited as an example of this type. The sentence "Jose caught the piranha" would therefore come out as Piranha caught Jose. Object Subject Verb (OSV) is one of the permutations of expression used in Linguistic typology. ...
The dialects of Jamamadi that are or were once spoken include Bom Futuro, Pauini, Mamoria and Cuchudua. Jurua and Tukurina are sometimes listed as dialects, but may be separate languages. The Jurua River is the next great southern affluent of the Amazon River west of the Purus, sharing with this the bottom of the immense inland Amazon depression, and having all the characteristics of the Purus as regards curvature, sluggishness and general features of the low, half-flooded forest country...
Names highlighted in yellow print are linked to completed Encyclopedia articles; those in plain fl print do not yet have articles, so they are simply linked to a table of basic facts, indicating the location, language, population, and land base for each indigenous people.
There are also articles that do not deal with any specific indigenous group but, instead, analyze a set of peoples that, although they speak different languages and have many singular characteristics, inhabits in the same region and are intimately related by a exchange network of intermarriage, trade, rituals and political articulations.
There is also the instance of Timbira people whose inner social groups speak the same language, but are geographically dispersed and have many cultural and historical differences concerning the contact with other indigenous peoples or with the non-indigenous population.
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