Truká language

{{Short description|Extinct language of Brazil}}

{{infobox language

| name = Truká

| nativename =

| states = Brazil

| region = Pernambuco, Bahia

| ethnicity = 1,300

| extinct = latter half of 20th century

| ref = e25

| familycolor = American

| family = unclassifiable

| iso3 = tka

| glotto = truk1242

| glottorefname = Truká

| acceptance = unattested

}}

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

It was originally spoken in the Ilha da Assunção archipelago of the São Francisco River in Cabrobó, Pernambuco State.{{Cite web |url=https://pib.socioambiental.org/pt/Povo:Truk%C3%A1 |title=Truká |website=Povos Indígenas no Brasil |language=pt |accessdate=29 January 2020}}

References

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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): [http://www.ling.fi/Entradas%20diccionario/Dic=Truk%e1.pdf "Truká" (Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos.)]

{{Languages of Brazil}}

{{NE Brazil languages}}

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Category:Unattested languages of South America

Category:Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil

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