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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia and Brazil in the northwest Amazon rain forest. The Kotirias have lived in this remote region for more than seven hundred years and participate in the complex Vaupes social system characterized by longstanding linguistic and cultural interaction. The Kotirias remained relatively isolated from the dominant societies

Arawakan languages --- Areal linguistics. --- Guanano language --- Grammar. --- Indiana University, Bloomington. --- Amazon River Region --- Languages. --- Anana language --- Anano language --- Kotedia language --- Kotiria language --- Kotirya language --- Uanana language --- Wanana language --- Tucanoan languages --- Indians of Central America --- Indians of South America --- Indians of the West Indies --- Area linguistics --- Geolinguistics --- Linguistics --- Languages --- AISRI --- American Indian Studies Research Institute --- Amazonia --- Maipuran languages --- Maipure languages