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Proper noun
Tuyuca
- An indigenous people of Colombia and Brazil.
- 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.
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Ethnologue entry for Tuyuca, tue