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Tuyuca

Tuyuca proper noun: an indigenous people of Colombia and Brazil.

Proper noun

Tuyuca

  1. An indigenous people of Colombia and Brazil.
  2. 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 of Tuyuca

  • Dochkafuara
  • Dojkapuara
  • Doka-Poara
  • Doxká-Poárá
  • Tejuca
  • Tuiuca
  • Tuyuka

Questions about Tuyuca

What does Tuyuca mean?
Tuyuca means an indigenous people of Colombia and Brazil.
What part of speech is Tuyuca?
Tuyuca is a proper noun.

Words near Tuyuca in the dictionary

  1. Tuybo
  2. tuyer
  3. tuyere
  4. tuyeres
  5. tuyers
  6. Tuyuca
  7. Tuyuhun
  8. tuyul
  9. tuyuls
  10. tuyère
  11. tuyères

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