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Preferred term

tueTuyuca  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Tuyuca (also Dochkafuara, Tejuca, Tuyuka, Dojkapuara, Doxká-Poárá, Doka-Poara, or Tuiuca) is an Eastern Tucanoan language (similar to Tucano) spoken by the Tuyuca people. The Tuyuca are an indigenous ethnic group of some 500-1000 people who inhabit the watershed of the Papuri, Inambú and Tiquié rivers in the Colombian department of Vaupés and the Brazilian state of Amazonas.

Entry terms

  • Tuyuca language

ISO 639-3 code

  • tue

Notation

  • tue

In other languages

  • Tuyuca

    French

  • Tuyuka

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • Tuyuca

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/tue

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