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Tuyuca Indian Language (Tuyuka)

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



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

˜Tuyuca Culture and History Links –

Los Tuyuca:
    Information about the Tuyucas in Spanish.



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