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Truká language
Truká
(unattested)
Native toBrazil
RegionPernambuco, Bahia
Ethnicity1,300
Extinctlatter half of 20th century[1]
unclassifiable
Language codes
ISO 639-3tka
Glottologtruk1242

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.[2]

References

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

Further reading

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  • 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.)