Meanings
proper noun
- An indigenous people of Colombia and Brazil.
- 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 & antonyms
Similar
DochkafuaraDojkapuaraDoka-PoaraDoxká-PoáráTejucaTuiucaTuyuka
Translations
French tuyuca
- tuyucalanguage
Portuguese tuiuca
- tuiucalanguage
Russian тую́ка
- тую́ка (tujúka)language
Spanish tuyuca
- tuyucalanguage
Cite this entry
APA
Tuyuca. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tuyuca
MLA
“Tuyuca.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tuyuca. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tuyuca,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tuyuca.
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