Truká language

Truká is an extinct and unattested, but presumed, language of Brazil. The ethnic population is about 1,300.

Truká
Native toBrazil
RegionPernambuco, Bahia
Extinct(date missing)
(unattested)
Language codes
ISO 639-3tka
Glottologtruk1242[1]

It was originally spoken in the Ilha da Assunção archipelago of the São Francisco River in Cabrobó, Pernambuco State.[2]

Further reading

  • Batista, Mércia Rejane Rangel. De caboclos da Assunção à índios Truká: estudo sobre a emergência da identidade étnica Truká. Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ-Museu Nacional, 1992. 229 p. (M.A. thesis)
  • CIMI Nordeste. Truká: violência, impunidade e descaso. Recife: Cimi-NE, 1992. 35 p. (Série 500 Anos de Resistência)
  • Gerlic, Sebastián (ed.). Os índios na visão dos índios. Truká. Salvador: Thydêwá, 2003.
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References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Truká". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. "Truká". Povos Indígenas no Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.


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