Maku people
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Maku languages; Macu language; Borowa people; Mako language; Itoto; Wotuja; Jojod; Macú; Makú Indians; Macu tribe; Maco language; Borówa people; Maco people; Macu people; Maku language; Mako people; Mácu people; Macú people; Makú people; Mácu language; Máku people; Maku people (disambiguation); Macu language (Brazil); Máku language (disambiguation)
Maku (Macu, Máku, Mácu, Makú, Macú) or Maco (Mako, Máko, Macó, Makó) is a pejorative term referring to several hunter-gatherer peoples of the upper Amazon, derived from an Arawakan term ma-aku "do not speak / without speech". Nimuendajú (1950), for example, notes six peoples of Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil that are known as 'Maku'.