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Northern Barasano

"Northern Barasano" is a general name sometimes used for the Bara and Waimaha tribes of Colombia, because these tribes are kinfolk of the Barasana tribe and located slightly to the north of them. They are ethnically distinct, however, and speak different languages.

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Here are links to our webpages about the Northern Barasano tribes and languages:

Bara language
Waimaha language
Southern Barasano
Tucanoan
Colombian tribes
Amazonian people
South American Indian languages

Here are a few good books about the Northern Barasanos:
The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia
The Amazonian Languages

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