Ocaina

Ocaina
Dyo'xaiya; Ivo'tsa;
	Ocaina chief, 1924
Total population
	137 (2012)
Regions with significant populations
	Peru, Colombia
Languages
	Ocaina

Last updated March 24, 2025

The Ocainas are an Amazonian indigenous people of Peru and Colombia, who are today in danger of extinction. There were 176 of them in 2012.^[1] They are one of the many Indigenous populations who still speak their original language, being Ocaina, a Witotoan language. In Amazonia, there are only 50 people who still speak Ocaina.

Notes

↑ Crevels, Mily (2012-01-13), Campbell, Lyle; Grondona, Verónica (eds.), "Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking", The Indigenous Languages of South America, DE GRUYTER, pp. 167–234, doi:10.1515/9783110258035.167, ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3 , retrieved 2025-03-23

Bibliography

Blixen, Olaf (1999). Tradiciones ocainas. Buenos Aires: Ciudad Argentina : [Fundación Centro de Estudios Políticos y Administrativos]. ISBN 978-987-507-105-6.

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[1] Crevels, Mily (2012-01-13), Campbell, Lyle; Grondona, Verónica (eds.), "Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking", The Indigenous Languages of South America, DE GRUYTER, pp. 167–234, doi:10.1515/9783110258035.167, ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3 , retrieved 2025-03-23

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