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Would you like to accompany my friend on a walk past various Amazonian fruits her family grows?

--Caímo, mango, asaí (açai), chontaturo, and aguaje.

In Tikuna, caímo = ta'u, mango I don't know, asaí =waira, chontaduro she just taught me in this video (something like "ntuh" with a rising tone on the "tuh" part), and aguaje = tema.

#Amazonia, #Amazonas #Tikuna #Ticuna

Mimosa pudica "not only has an extremely developed sense of touch, but can distinguish among different stimuli and even change its behavior, no longer remaining closed once it learns that a stimulus isn’t dangerous."

Here it is in its home territory. In Tikuna it's called "naiatü peweë, "leaves that love to sleep." #plants #amazonas #tikuna #ticuna

And here's a link to the article I got the quote from: https://www.microcosmssacredplants.org/plant/mimosa-pudica-a-new-sacred-plant/

I told my friend and tutor that thanks to her lessons I was able to understand the Tikuna spoken in the film (well, a lot of it, anyway), and she said the Tikuna-speaking character is her uncle! She sent me this, circling him. #languages #IndigenousLanguages #Ticuna #Tikuna #Amazonas #Amazonia

Results of an image search: a black-and-white still from the film "Embrace of the Serpent," showing the ailing Germany scientist and his Ticuna assistant. A river is behind them, and behind that, forest. My friend has put a green circle around her uncle.

Congratulations, casabe, on being recognized by UNESCO as part of the intangible cultural heritage of humanity

All of us who have ever had you already knew that you are delicious, but nice to have that fact recognized far and wide.

NPR story: https://www.npr.org/2024/12/19/nx-s1-5228103/cassava-bread-is-named-a-cultural-heritage-of-humanity

Photo is my friend's mom letting me help make some. The Ticuna word for casabe is dowü. #UNESCO #IntangibleCulturalHeritage #casabe #CassavaBread #Ticuna #Tikuna #Amazonas #Colombia #Leticia #PatrimonioCulturalInmaterial

two people are pressing cassava starch (tapioca) onto a large , flat frying pan over a wood fire. There is freshly grilled fish in the foreground and a turquoise tarp wall in the background.

More! Can understand even more of this one 😁😁 #Tikuna #Ticuna #Magüta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwW1GiC14C8

Pop song in Tikuna!

#Tikuna #Ticuna #Magütá
#IndigenousLanguages #LenguasIndigenas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8wAMpFvQjA

“Queremos conformar la primera academia de medios de comunicación indígena en la Selva Amazónica”.

#amazonia #amazonas #PueblosIndigenas #IndigenousFilmmakers #communication #Tikuna #Ticuna #Murui #PuertoNariño #Tarapacá #ColombiaVisible

https://colombiavisible.com/escuela-audiovisual-de-la-amazonia/

My friend in the Amazon sent me this video of butterflies by her boyfriend's fishing boat. #Amazonas #Amazonia #Peru #Ticuna #Tikuna #Cocama #mariposas #butterflies

¡¡conseguí un diccionario ticuna-castellano!!

It is (predictably) produced by missionaries, but the linguist whose lectures I'm watching (several years after the fact) says it's not bad. He also says it's the only dictionary there currently is, so ... SCORE!

#languages #IndigenousLanguages #Amazonas #Amazonia #Ticuna #Tikuna

Beautiful jewelry created from discarded plastic bottles. Bom trabalho Elizete e Gabriel! Many thanks to @TootTropiques for sharing this with me! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVvvBLlzn7g #amazonia #recycling #brazil #brasil #plastic_pollution #IndigenousCrafts #Tikuna #Ticuna

Song in Tikuna by Djuenatikuna, a Tikuna singer--she's performed all over, including at MIT. I think the song title means "thanks to my grandmothers" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKP5FHF2DUQ #Amazonia, #Amazonas, #ticuna, #tikuna, #youtube #Brasil #Brazil #indigenous

Thing I've just learned from Denis Bertet's recorded lectures on Tikuna language: with 15 tonal features (tones plus "creaky voice"), Tikuna is an EXTREMELY unusual language. Only .5% or less of languages in the world have 8 or more tones, and in South America, no other language has more than 4 or 5. #languages #linguistics #Tikuna #Ticuna

A great quote from of the film's creators, Mayra Ricardo Zuluaga, talking about it at the Universidade do Estado do Amazonas in Manaus:
"O leitura para os Magüta nāo começa pelo livro, começa pelo corpo" (Reading for the Magüta doesn't start w/books but w/the body.) #Amazonia #Amzonas #learning #Ticuna #Tikuna #Magüta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xU3N3gNwvxw

This 27 min documentary uses the tradition of grating huito (Genipa ameriana, Portuguese genipapo) as a way about talking about connection with the land; the unity of land and people; loss of land, people, and tradition.
"É torü maü̃: huito nuestro espíritu" #Amazonia #Amazonas #Tikuna #Magüta, #Ticuna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=xU3N3gNwvxw