Xavín (Ocaina)

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About this app

It is an application for cell phones and tablets (Android Operating System) for children from 3 to 5 years old to learn through images and sounds the basic contents about the alphabet, numbers, family, colors, parts of the human body, animals, fruits and basic expressions in the Ocaina language.

This app is aimed at serving as instruments to strengthen and promote linguistic revitalization processes that arise with the new generations.



In the past, the Ocaina people occupied part of the territory that today belongs to Colombia. Although it was a nomadic people that for years lived on both sides of the border, it is known that the vast majority of the Ocaina population settled in Peruvian territory at the beginning of the 20th century, in the context of the rubber era.

The Ocaina people live mainly in the department of Loreto, near the border with Colombia. According to the results of the 2017 national censuses, due to their customs and ancestors there have been 116 people who have self-identified as part of the Ocaina people at the national level; and by the language or mother tongue with which he learned to speak in his childhood, there have been 44 people who have stated that they speak the Ocaina language, which corresponds to 0.0009% of the total native languages ​​nationwide. In addition, the data obtained by the Ministry of Culture, the population of two communities of the Ocaina people is estimated at 75 people.

Source: https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/ocaina