Truká

Truká language

Truká language

Extinct language of Brazil

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

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

References

  1. [1]
    Truká at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. [2]
    "Truká". Povos Indígenas no Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.

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.
  • Fabre, Alain (2005): "Truká" (Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos.)


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