Truká language
Truká is an extinct and unattested, but presumed, language of Brazil. The ethnic population is about 1,300.
| Truká | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Brazil |
| Region | Pernambuco, Bahia |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
(unattested) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tka |
| Glottolog | truk1242[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.
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Truká". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "Truká". Povos Indígenas no Brasil (in Portuguese). Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- Fabre, Alain (2005): "Truká" (Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamericanos.)
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