Tuyuca language

Tuyuca
Docapúaraye
Native to	Colombia, Brazil
Native speakers	(1,000 cited 1983–2006)
Language family	Tucanoan Eastern Central Bara Tuyuca
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	tuyu1244  (Tuyuca)
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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.

Tuyuca is a postpositional agglutinative SOV language with mandatory type II evidentiality. Five evidentiality paradigms are used: visual, nonvisual, apparent, secondhand, and assumed, though secondhand evidentiality exists only in the past tense and apparent evidentiality does not appear in the first person present tense. The language is estimated to have 50 to 140 noun classes.

The consonants in Tuyuca are /p t k b d ɡ s r w j h/ and the vowels are /i ɨ u e a o/, plus syllable nasalization and pitch accent.

Vowels

Consonants

The following words show some of the consonant contrasts.

Bilabial contrasts

Alveolar contrasts

Velar and palatal contrasts

Segments in a word are either all nasal or all oral.

Note that voiceless segments are transparent.

See further remarks regarding the oral/nasal nature of affixes in the Morphophonemics section.

The two suprasegmental features in this language are tone and nasalization.

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