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Tuyuca Indian Language (Tuyuka)

Tuyuca is a Tucanoan language of South America.
Tuyuca is spoken by 800 people in Colombia and Brazil. It is a tone language with SOV word order.

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Tuyuca Language Resources

Tuyuca Linguistic Description

Tuyuca Orthography

Tuyuca Phonology

Tuyuca Text:
Scanned-in Tuyuca language materials from the Rosetta Project.

La Lengua Tuyuca:
Information on Tuyuca including linguistic maps of South America. Page in Spanish.

House of Languages: Tuyuca:
Information about Tuyuca language usage.

Tuyuca Language:
Demographic information on Tuyuca from the Ethnologue of Languages.

Bará-Tuyuka Language Tree:
Theories about Tuyuka's language relationships compiled by Linguist List.

Tuyuca Language Structures:
Tuyuca linguistic profile and academic bibliography.

Tuyuca Culture and History Links

Los Tuyuca:
Information about the Tuyucas in Spanish.

The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia:
Anthropology book on the social structures of the Tuyuca and other Tucanoan tribes.

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