Sikiana
Total population
~83[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Brazil33 (1986)[1]
 Suriname50 (2001)[1]
Languages
Sikiana, Tiriyó[1]
Religion
traditional tribal religion
Related ethnic groups
Salumá[1]

The Sikiana are an indigenous people, living in Brazil, Suriname, and Venezuela.[1]

The Sikiana in Brazil live between the Cafuini River and headwaters of the Turuna and Itapi close to border with Suriname.[2] The group in Suriname lives in Kwamalasamutu.[3] The group in Venezuela is probably extinct.[4]

The 1916 Encyclopaedia of the Dutch West Indies placed the Sikiana at the Trombetas River in Brazil, and said that they had a close relationship with the Salumá and the Tiriyó.[5]

Name

The Sikiana are also called Chikena, Chiquena, Chiquiana, Shikiana, Sikiâna, Sikiyana, Sikiána, Sikïiyana, Tshikiana, Xikiyana, or Xikujana people.[1]

Language

The Sikiana language belongs to the Carib language family.[1] The people in Suriname speak Tiriyó as a second language.[4] Some Sikiana people in Venezuela speak the Tiriyó.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Sikiana." Ethnologue. 2009. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
  2. ↑ "Sikiana in Brazil". Joshua Project. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  3. ↑ "Sikiana in Suriname". Joshua Project. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Sikiana". Caribbean Indigenous and Endangered Languages at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Retrieved 23 July 2020.
  5. ↑ "Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch West-Indië - Page 175 - Sikiana" (PDF). Digital Library for Dutch Literature (in Dutch). 1916. Retrieved 23 July 2020.



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