Kokama
See also: kokama
English edit
Proper noun edit
Kokama
- Alternative form of Cocama
- 2006, Jonathan David Hill, Fernando Santos-Granero, Comparative Arawakan Histories, →ISBN:
- Therefore, the Kokama languages, including Kokama, Kokamilla, Omagua, and probably others, would be representatives of the riverine Arawaks who controlled much of the Amazon main branch.
- 2012, Lyle Campbell, Verónica Grondona, The Indigenous Languages of South America, →ISBN:
- According to Cabral (1995), the origin of Kokama must go back to the late pre-Columbian periuod, when a group of Tupinambá speakers migrated in the late 15th century from the Atlantic coast inland to the upper Amazon, and came in contact with speakers of one or more other languages, possibly Arawakan.
- 2014, Gale Goodwin Gómez, Hein van der Voort, Reduplication in Indigenous Languages of South America, →ISBN, page 278:
- Generally, stress in isolated words of two and more syllables is on the last syllable in the Tupi and Tupi-Guarani languages discussed here, with the exception of Chiriguano, Siriono, Yuki, Ava/-Canoeiro, and Kokama, where it is on the penultimate syllable.
Noun edit
Kokama (plural Kokamas or Kocama)
- Alternative form of Cocama
- 1949, James Minoru Sakoda, Minidoka, page 354:
- The Kokamas looked disturbed when they arrived in Shoshone.
- 1952, Curt Nimuendajú, The Tukuna - Volumes 45-46, page 9:
- Simultaneously, the Kokama Indians of the lower Ucayali region began to emigrate to the Brazilian Solim5es, where they established themselves among the Tukuna, though in separate localities.
- 2006, Sille Stidsen, The Indigenous World 2006, →ISBN, page 194:
- Espírito Santo (Amazonas state), with an area of 33,849 has. for a population of 121 inhabitants, permanently occupied by the Kokama people.
- 2006, Good Practices on Indigenous Peoples' Development, →ISBN, page 160:
- Influencing other ethnic groups and beyond The Ticuna project has already expanded to include teachers from two other ethnic groups, Kokama and Kaixana.