Analysis of the term ‘pariente’ as a form
of address in the Sikuani community of Puerto Gaitán (Colombia), by John Alexander Roberto Rodríguez

FONTANELLA DE WEINBERG, M. B. La constitución del paradigma pronominal del voceo. Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1977.

LÉVI-STRAUSS, C. Las estructuras elementales de parentesco. Barcelona: PAIDOS, 1991.

MATHIEU, N. Testimonios del uso de ‘vuestra merced’, ‘vos’ y ‘tú’ en América (1500-1650). Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1982.

MONTES, José J. Sobre el voceo en Colombia. Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1967.

MONTES, José J. Dialectología general e hispanoamericana. Santafé de Bogotá: Instituto Caro y Cuervo, 1995.

PÓNARE, R. G. Estilo cognoscitivo guahibo. Agencia Canadiense para el Desarrollo, 1992.

QUEIXALOS, F. Entre cantos y llantos: tradición oral sikuani. Santafé de Bogotá: Etnollano, 1991.

7. Interesting links

At this site you will find information about the various indigenous communities of Colombia http://galeon.hispavista.com/culturasamerica/Cultura.htm and in particular information about the Guahibos http://galeon.hispavista.com/culturasamerica/Guahibos.htm

Website of the Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) that offers demographic information about the Sikuani http://www.javeriana.edu.co/Humana/sikuani.html

GRAIN’s (Genetic Resources Action International) website on biodiversity by way of the Native Organization UNUMA and the communities that make it up http://www.grain.org/sp/publications/produccion-ejemplo-colombia.cfm

Ethnologue’s website in English that contains an extensive review of publications on the languages of Colombia http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Colombia

Official site of LINDA (Native Languages of the Amazon) dedicated to the study and dissemination of American Indian languages http://www.abyayala.org/Linda/index.html

John Alexander Roberto Rodríguez
IULA-University Pompeu Fabra
john.roberto@iula.upf.es