Flecheiros

The Flecheiros are one of the uncontacted peoples in the Javari region of the Amazon. Their ambiguous name simply means "archers".

Language

Flecheiro
Region Javari
unattested
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog flec1235[1]

Ethnographically, the people are similar to the Kanamarí. However, a meeting between a Kanamarí and the Flecheiros was observed, showing that the two have different languages. Their language is thus unknown and perhaps unattested.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Flecheiros". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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