Tuyuca

English

Proper noun

Tuyuca

1. An indigenous people of Colombia and Brazil.
2. The Tucanoan language of this people, being a postpositional agglutinative SOV language with five mandatory evidentiality paradigms (visual, nonvisual, apparent, secondhand, and assumed), and from 50 to 140 noun classes.

Synonyms

• Dochkafuara, Dojkapuara, Doka-Poara, Doxká-Poárá, Tejuca, Tuiuca, Tuyuka

Translations

language

• French: tuyuca m
• Portuguese: tuiuca m
• Russian: тую́ка m (tujúka)
• Spanish: tuyuca m
• Tuyuca: docapúaraye

Further reading

Ethnologue entry for Tuyuca, tue ⁠