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Tuyuca

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Tuyuca is a Tucanoan language spoken in Brazil and Colombia, by about 570 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.

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Tuyuca (also Dochkafuara, Tejuca, Tuyuka, Dojkapuara, Doxká-Poárá, Doka-Poara, or Tuiuca) is an Eastern Tucanoan language (similar to Tucano). Tuyuca is spoken by the Tuyuca, an indigenous ethnic group of some 500–1000 people, who inhabit the watershed of the Papuri River, the Inambú River, and the Tiquié River in Vaupés Department, Colombia, and Amazonas State, Brazil. Studies from the 1980s to 1990s noted that Tuyuca was spoken by fewer than 300 people in Colombia and 590 people in Brazil.

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Words in Tuyuca

MeaningWordRomanization
womanbaso-'kó
personbasoka*
namewabe*
eyekapea*
earkabopero*
noseekea*
toothupiga*
tongueyebero*
handwabopaba*
blooddi*
bonekoa*
skinkasero*
kneeyikakobea*
breastopea*
liveryebetuti*
waterokó
firepekabe*
sunb3rekobak3buip3*
staryokoaw3*
stone3ta*
mountainburo*
treeyuk3g3*
leafpu*
nightyabi*
dogdiayi*
fishwai*
lousekiaw3*
onesika*
twop3a*
Iy373*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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