Juma people

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Júma
Total population
3 (2021)
Mixed ancestry: 14 (2021)
Uru-eu-wau-wau[2]

The Júma are an

Rio Açuã.[2]

Name

The Júma are also known as Kagwahibm, Kagwahiph, Kagwahiv, Kavahiva, Kawahip, Kawaib, and Yumá people.[2]

Population

In the 18th century, the Juma numbered between 12,000–15,000 people.[3] The Juma numbered 300 in 1940.[2] In 1998, there were only four Juma people.[citation needed]. As of 2021, there are 17 descendants of Aruká's, the last elder Juma member, who died from COVID-19 in 2021 in Porto Velho. He was survived by his three daughters and grandchildren.[4][1][5]

Language

The Júma people spoke one of the nine varieties of the

Tupi-Guarani languages.[2] The last native speaker, called Aruka Juma, died in 2021.[6][7] Furthermore, the language has been documented since 2019 through the recording of vocabulary lists, traditional narratives, everyday stories, etc. Some of the texts can accessed through the website of the Survey of California and Other Indian Languages.[8]

Notes

  1. ^ a b "A devastadora e irreparável morte de Aruká Juma".
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Juma." Ethnologue. 2009. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Juma: Introduction." Instituto Socioambiental: Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved 27 March 2012
  4. ^ Galarraga Gortázar, Naiara (2021-02-22). "Covid-19 takes the life of the last male from Brazil's indigenous Juma tribe". El País. Retrieved 2021-02-23.
  5. ^ "A última família dos índios Juma". Risca Faca. 19 April 2016.
  6. ^ Michael Astor (10 March 2021). "Aruká Juma, Last Man of His Tribe, Is Dead". New York Times.
  7. ^ Astor, Michael (14 March 2021). "The last living man of the Juma people in Brazil has died from Covid-19". The New York Times. Retrieved 27 April 2022.
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