Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Ticuna

SOURCE

Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos, Peru

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Ticuna

Language Profile

TOTAL SPEAKERS

25,000 (1988)

USAGE BY COUNTRY (OFFICIAL LANGUAGE)

Home Speakers: Peru, Brazil and Colombia

BACKGROUND

It is considered as an isolated language and is spoken by 6,000 people in Peru, approx. 14,000 in Brazil and 5,000 in Colombia. The area where Ticuna is spoken is the north-eastern Amazon River region , from Chimbote in Peru to San Antonio do Iça in Brazil.