Tsiimene (Bora)

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 Bora language.

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

The Bora people have been related to the Murui-Muinanɨ and Ocaina peoples because they share a history and have some common cultural practices. In our country, the Bora are the only indigenous people whose language belongs to the Bora linguistic family.

The Bora are known, among other things, for the use of a communication system that served to transmit long-distance messages between large multi-family houses. To do this, they used the manguaré, a communication instrument that is based on two mahogany drums and mahogany mallets and with which they emit sounds with tones similar to those of the Bora language.

The Bora people live mainly in the north-eastern part of the department of Loreto, near the border with Colombia. According to the results of the 2017 national censuses, 1,151 people have identified themselves as part of the Bora people at the national level due to their customs and ancestors; and due to the field work carried out by the Ministry of Education, 748 people have stated that they speak the Bora language. In addition, the data obtained by the Ministry of Culture, the population of the communities of the Bora people is estimated at 781 people.

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