Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Ticuna

Index Ticuna

The Ticuna (also Magüta, Tucuna, Tikuna, or Tukuna) are an indigenous people of Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. [1]

24 relations: Amazon basin, Amazonas (Brazilian state), Arawakan languages, Brazilian Baptist Convention, Catholic Church in Brazil, Christianity, Endogamy, Evangelicalism, Helmet massacre, Indigenous peoples in Brazil, Indigenous peoples in Colombia, Indigenous peoples in Peru, Joshua Project, Language isolate, Latin script, National Museum of the American Indian, Presbyterian Church of Brazil, Shamanism, Solimões River, Terrence Kaufman, Ticuna language, Ticuna–Yuri languages, University of São Paulo, YouTube.

Amazon basin

The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.

New!!: Ticuna and Amazon basin · See more »

Amazonas (Brazilian state)

Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country.

New!!: Ticuna and Amazonas (Brazilian state) · See more »

Arawakan languages

Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America.

New!!: Ticuna and Arawakan languages · See more »

Brazilian Baptist Convention

The Brazilian Baptist Convention or Convenção Batista Brasileira is the oldest Baptist group in Brazil.

New!!: Ticuna and Brazilian Baptist Convention · See more »

Catholic Church in Brazil

The Catholic Church in Brazil is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome, and the influential National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil - CNBB), composed by over 400 primary and auxiliary bishops and archbishops.

New!!: Ticuna and Catholic Church in Brazil · See more »

Christianity

ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.

New!!: Ticuna and Christianity · See more »

Endogamy

Endogamy is the practice of marrying within a specific social group, caste or ethnic group, rejecting those from others as unsuitable for marriage or other close personal relationships.

New!!: Ticuna and Endogamy · See more »

Evangelicalism

Evangelicalism, evangelical Christianity, or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide, crossdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity which maintains the belief that the essence of the Gospel consists of the doctrine of salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ's atonement.

New!!: Ticuna and Evangelicalism · See more »

Helmet massacre

The Helmet massacre (massacre do Capacete) of the Tikuna people took place in March 1988, in the municipality of Benjamin Constant, in the Alto Solimões region, in a remote area in the state of Amazonas.

New!!: Ticuna and Helmet massacre · See more »

Indigenous peoples in Brazil

Indigenous peoples in Brazil (povos indígenas no Brasil), or Indigenous Brazilians (indígenas brasileiros), comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who have inhabited what is now the country of Brazil since prior to the European contact around 1500.

New!!: Ticuna and Indigenous peoples in Brazil · See more »

Indigenous peoples in Colombia

Indigenous peoples of Colombia, or Native Colombians, are the ethnic groups who have been in Colombia prior to the Europeans in the early 16th century.

New!!: Ticuna and Indigenous peoples in Colombia · See more »

Indigenous peoples in Peru

Indigenous peoples in Peru, or Native Peruvians, comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who have inhabited the country of Peru's territory since before the arrival of Europeans around 1500.

New!!: Ticuna and Indigenous peoples in Peru · See more »

Joshua Project

The Joshua Project (formerly part of AD2000) is an organization seeking to highlight the ethnic groups of the world with the least followers of evangelical Christianity.

New!!: Ticuna and Joshua Project · See more »

Language isolate

A language isolate, in the absolute sense, is a natural language with no demonstrable genealogical (or "genetic") relationship with other languages, one that has not been demonstrated to descend from an ancestor common with any other language.

New!!: Ticuna and Language isolate · See more »

Latin script

Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, which is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, used by the Etruscans.

New!!: Ticuna and Latin script · See more »

National Museum of the American Indian

The National Museum of the American Indian is part of the Smithsonian Institution and is committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of the Native cultures of the Western Hemisphere—past, present, and future—through partnership with Native people and others.

New!!: Ticuna and National Museum of the American Indian · See more »

Presbyterian Church of Brazil

The Presbyterian Church of Brazil (Portuguese: Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil, or IPB) is an Evangelical Protestant Christian denomination in Brazil.

New!!: Ticuna and Presbyterian Church of Brazil · See more »

Shamanism

Shamanism is a practice that involves a practitioner reaching altered states of consciousness in order to perceive and interact with what they believe to be a spirit world and channel these transcendental energies into this world.

New!!: Ticuna and Shamanism · See more »

Solimões River

Solimões is the name often given to upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Peru.

New!!: Ticuna and Solimões River · See more »

Terrence Kaufman

Terrence Kaufman (born 1937) is an American linguist specializing in documentation of unwritten languages, lexicography, Mesoamerican historical linguistics and language contact phenomena.

New!!: Ticuna and Terrence Kaufman · See more »

Ticuna language

Ticuna, or Tikuna, is a language spoken by approximately 50,000 people in Brazil, Peru, and Colombia.

New!!: Ticuna and Ticuna language · See more »

Ticuna–Yuri languages

Ticuna–Yuri is a small family, perhaps even a dialect continuum, consisting of at least two, and perhaps three, known languages of South America: the major western Amazonian language Ticuna, the poorly attested and extinct Yurí, and the scarcely known language of the largely uncontacted Carabayo.

New!!: Ticuna and Ticuna–Yuri languages · See more »

University of São Paulo

No description.

New!!: Ticuna and University of São Paulo · See more »

YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

New!!: Ticuna and YouTube · See more »

Redirects here:

Maguta, Magüta, Ticuna Indians, Ticuna people, Ticuna tribe, Ticunas, Tikuna, Tikuna Indians, Tikuna people, Tikuna tribe, Tikunas, Tucuna people, Tukuna people, Tïcuna people.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticuna

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »