Makurap - Makurap

Mission

This platform is an initiative of the Indigenous Languages Platform dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and revitalization of the language and culture of the Makurap people, speakers of an Tupian family language in southern Rondônia, Brazil.

Our goal is to make linguistic, ethnographic, and cultural materials available in accessible digital formats, contributing to the strengthening of Makurap identity and to research on Brazilian indigenous languages.

Team & Partners

This project is developed in collaboration with:

Unifacc — University center, institutional partner
Salesian Mission of Mato Grosso — Historic partnership with indigenous peoples of the region
Uppsala University — Support in computational linguistics and technology

Contact

For more information about the project, collaborations, or contributions:

Email: info@plataformasindigenas.org
Portal: portal.plataformasindigenas.org

How to Cite

Indigenous Languages Platform. Digital Platform of the Makurap Language and Culture. Available at: https://makurap.terradoc.org. Accessed: 2026.

Technology

This platform was built with open-source tools developed specifically for indigenous language documentation:

terradoc

Site generation framework for indigenous language documentation

aptoro

Data conversion and processing pipeline

kodudo

Template rendering engine

Image credits

The hero (header) photo is from the Instituto Socioambiental — Povos Indígenas no Brasil archive, used with authorization.

The people, culture and territory photographs on the home page are images of the Makurap themselves, uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Jeffeson Tupari Makurap (CC BY-SA 4.0) — using imagery that comes from the community is a deliberate choice for this platform.

Rio Guaporé landscape by Jônatas Justiniano Lima (CC BY-SA 4.0); urucum (Bixa orellana) by Leonardo Aguiar (CC BY 2.0). The fauna and ethnobotany photos are reused from this project's Bororo and Enawenê-Nawê platforms. Details in CREDITS.md.