Tuxá language

Tuxá
Rodela
Native toBrazil
RegionBahia, Pernambuco
EthnicityTuxá
Extinctafter 1960s?
Language codes
ISO 639-3tud
Glottologtuxa1239

Tuxá (Tusha; also Todela ~ Rodela, Carapató, Payacú) was the eastern Brazilian language of the Tuxá people, who now speak Portuguese and Dzubukuá. The language was believed to have ceased being spoken in the late 19th century, but in the 1960s a research team found two women that had been expelled from the Tuxa tribe in Bahia 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, Pernambuco (now part of Bahia).