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Cocama Indian Language (Kokama, Ucayali, Huallaga)

Cocama is a Tupian language of South America.
Cocama is spoken by around 2000 people in Peru and Brazil. It has SOV word order.

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Cocama Language Resources

Peru Linguistic Map

Tribes and Languages of Peru:

Western Central Brazil:
Maps showing the areas in South America where Kukama (Cocama) is spoken.

Language Museum: Cocama-Cocamilla:
Translation of a Bible passage into Cocama.

La Lengua Kokama-Kokamilya:
Cocama language information including linguistic maps of Peru, Brazil and Colombia. Page in Spanish.

House of Languages: Cocama-Cocamilla:
Information about Cocama language usage.

Cocama Language:
Demographic information on Cocama from the Ethnologue of Languages.

Cocama-Cocamilla Language Tree:
Theories about Cocama's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

Cocama Language Structures:
Cocama linguistic profile and academic bibliography.

Cocama Culture and History

The Kokama Tribe:
Online ethnography of the Kokamas of Brazil.

Biography: Kokama:
Oral history from Cocama elders. Page in Portuguese.

Every time an elder dies, a library is burnt:
Article about the medical and cultural threats posed by the COVID pandemic to the Kokama and other rural tribes.

Links, References, and Additional Information

Tribes of Central Brazil:
Map showing where the Cocama and Cocamilla people live in Brazil.
Wikipedia: Cocama:
Encyclopedia articles on the Cocama language.
Grupo Indigena Cocama:

Cultura Kukama-Kukamiria

Lengua Kokama

Los Cocama:
Information about the Cocamas in Spanish.

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