The Tuyuca New Testament, titled Cõãmacʉ̃ mecʉ̃ã wedesei, is a translation of the New Testament into Tuyuca, an Eastern Tucanoan language spoken by approximately 1,400 people in southeastern Colombia and northwestern Brazil ^[1]. The Tuyuca people, who call themselves “Dokapuara” (sons of the stone snake), inhabit the watershed of the Papuri, Inambu, and Tiquie rivers in the Colombian department of Vaupés and the Brazilian state of Amazonas ^[2]. The translation was published in 2011 by Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. Linguistic work on Tuyuca was pioneered by Janet Barnes and Sheryl Silzer of SIL International, who published foundational phonological and grammatical studies of the language beginning in the 1970s ^[3]. Tuyuca is notable among world languages for its mandatory five-term evidential system, requiring speakers to grammatically mark how they obtained their information ^[4].

Language and People

Tuyuca (ISO 639-3: tue) is spoken by approximately 1,440 people in Northwestern Brazil. [Glottolog: tuyu1244]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Wycliffe Bible Translators USA.

References

[1] Tuyuca language and alphabet - Omniglot. Overview of Tuyuca language, speakers, and location.
[2] Tuyuca Language New Testament - Bible In My Language. Publication details and cultural context.
[3] El tuyuca - SIL Global. Linguistic description of Tuyuca by Janet Barnes et al.
[4] Evidentials in the Tuyuca Verb - Janet Barnes, International Journal of American Linguistics, 1984. Foundational study of Tuyuca evidential system.
BibleSearch - Online text, American Bible Society
Audio Bible - Audio Bible, Faith Comes By Hearing
NT - Online text, Faith Comes By Hearing
Cõãmacʉ̃ mecʉ̃ã wedesei - Online text, Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc.
Bible For Developers - DBL archive entry, Digital Bible Library
find.bible entry - find.bible. Bible catalogue entry for TUEWBT.
Global Bible Catalogue - Global Bible Catalogue entry.
ebible.org entry - ebible.org.