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
Tapajós-Xingu moist forests These include osprey ("Pandion haliaetus"), harpy eagle ("Harpia harpyja"), channel-billed toucan ("Ramphastos vitellinus"), little chachalaca ("Ortalis motmot"), nine tinamou species (Crypturellus and Tinamus genera), seven macaw species (Ara genus) including hyacinth macaw ("Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus"), many parakeets (Aratinga, Pyrrhura and Brotogeris genera), parrots (Amazona and Pionus genera) and hoatzin ("Opisthocomus hoazin"). Endangered birds include the green-thighed parrot ("Pionites leucogaster") and red-necked aracari ("Pteroglossus bitorquatus"). The World Wildlife Fund classes the ecoregion as "Vulnerable". The Tapajós-Xingu, Xingu-Tocantins-Araguaia and Tocantins-Pindara moist forest ecoregions on the eastern edge of the Amazon basin have all been badly affected by human settlement and deforestation. Roads have