Gramática do Kamaiurá, Língua Tupi-Guarani do Alto Xingu Dr. Seki's book on the Kamayurá is the first comprehensive grammar of an Indian language by a Brazilian since Anchieta's description of Tupinambá in 1595." Gramática do Kamaiurá, Língua Tupi-Guarani do Alto Xingu Gramática do Kamaiurá, Língua Tupi-Guarani do Alto Xingu, by Lucy Seki, is an authoritative and comprehensive description of Kamayurá, an indigenous language of Brazil. Kamayurá is spoken by the people of the same name, which number about 290 as of 2005, living in two villages in the Xingu National Indian Reservation, Brazil. The book has 482 pages of text, plus 17 pages of color photos of the
Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia moist forests 8 species of primates including the white-nosed saki ("Chiropotes albinasus"), red-handed tamarin ("Saguinus midas"), red-bellied titi ("Callicebus moloch"), Azara's night monkey ("Aotus azarae infulatus") and white-cheeked spider monkey ("Ateles marginatus"). The last two are endemic to this ecoregion and the Tapajós-Xingu moist forests to the west. Other species of mammals include white-lipped peccary ("Tayassu pecari"), collared peccary ("Pecari tajacu"), cougar ("Puma concolor"), jaguar ("Panthera onca"), South American tapir ("Tapirus terrestris"), brocket deer (genus "Mazama"), bare-tailed woolly opossum ("Caluromys philander"), and seven-banded armadillo ("Dasypus septemcinctus"). Endangered mammals include white-cheeked spider monkey ("Ateles marginatus"), black bearded saki ("Chiropotes satanas") and giant otter