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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Americas > Colombia > Huitoto, Minica

Huitoto, Minica

A language of Colombia

ISO 639-3hto

Population  6,800 (2002).
Region  Upper Igara-Parana. Caquetá River at Isla de los Monos, Caguan River near Sanvicente del Caguan.
Language map  Southern Colombia
Alternate names   Meneca, Minica
Classification  Witotoan, Witoto, Witoto Proper, Minica-Murui
Language development  Literacy rate in L1: 75%. Literacy rate in L2: 85%. Dictionary. Grammar. NT: 1985.
Writing system  Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Gaba, Raúl, Eugene E. Minor, and Dorothy A. Minor. 1974. "Texto huitoto: La historia de Dɨɨjoma."  Available online

Minor, Dorothy A. 1973. "Huitoto."  Available online

Minor, Dorothy A. 1981. "Do-it-yourself literacy for a scattered society."

Minor, Eugene E. and Dorothy A. Minor, compilers. 1987. Vocabulario bilingüe: huitoto-español, español-huitoto (dialecto mɨnɨca).  Available online

Minor, Eugene E. and Dorothy A. Minor. 1971. Vocabulario huitoto muinane.  Available online

Minor, Eugene E. and Dorothy A. Minor. 1971. Resumen de la gramática.

Minor, Eugene E. and Dorothy A. Minor. 1976. "Fonología del huitoto."  Available online

Minor, Eugene E. and Dorothy A. Minor. 1980. "Sistema huitoto de parentesco."

Minor, Eugene E. and Eugene E. Loos. 1963. "The structure and contexts of Witoto predicates in narrative speech."  Available online

Minor, Eugene E., Dorothy A. Minor, and Stephen H. Levinsohn, compilers. 1982. Gramática pedagógica huitoto.  Available online

Ocampo, Helman. 1980. "La vida del huitoto."  Available online

Schauer, Stanley and others. 1973. Aspectos de la cultura material de grupos étnicos de Colombia 1.  Available online

Vernacular Publications

Caɨ cúeiacagafuiaɨ llotɨ́nico. 1973.

Caɨ llofuelliana daɨɨ taɨnede: así empezó nuestro aprendizaje. 1977.

Diez dɨga rɨ́llenɨaɨ jazicɨ ie. 1973.

Huitoto rabenico. 1971.

Iocɨrede illena llorabe. 1975.

Jana kuera. 1989.

Jana-kuera. 1992.