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who knew some thirty words. It was spoken along the São Francisco River near Glória, Bahia, and was reported by Loukotka (1968) to have more recently been in the village of Rodelas,

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Vocabulary

Loukotka (1968)

Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items. :

Pompeu (1958)

Tushá vocabulary collected by Antônio Likaro e Cordorina in Rodelas:Pompeu Sobrinho, Thomaz. 1958. ''Línguas Tapuias desconhecidas do Nordeste: Alguns vocabulários inéditos''. Boletim de Antropologia (Fortaleza-Ceará) 2. 3-19. :

Meader (1978)

In 1961, Wilbur Pickering recorded the following word list in

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from Maria Dias dos Santos. She was an elderly rememberer of Tuxá who was born in Rodelas, but later moved to

. :

References

* (Tuxá wordlist §3.8, p30) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tuxa Language Indigenous languages of Northeastern Brazil Extinct languages of South America Language isolates of South America Languages extinct in the 19th century