Yuqui is a member of the Guarayu branch of the Tupí-Guaraní language family. It has about 120 speakers in Biá Recuaté and in Puerto Villaroel Municipality in Carrasco Province in Cochabamba Department in central Boliva. It is classified as severely endangered.
Historically, Yuqui speakers were nomadic and could be found in the provinces of Ichilo, Carrasco and Chapare. The Yuqui people believe their ancestors came from Chapare Province.
Yuqui is also known as Yuki, Yuquí, Mbiá, Bia or Biá. Yuqui speakers call their language Mbiaye', Biá yë' ("language pf the people") or Biaye, and themselves Mbia ("the people"). It has been officially recognised as an indigeous language in Bolivia since 2000. It is written with the Latin alphabet, and there is a translation of the Bible in Yuqui.
Download an alphabet chart for Yuqui (Excel)
Kiuti daiebia gura ruguia ju: ¡Cheseso tu baturãbiti sui ku cheberasi chĩĩ! Gura ruguiaje daiebia ju: ¡Cheseso tu abaa riaguesuira! Bia daie kiuti roaroa baturãbiti abaa riagueresera.
They say that in the past, people would say to the red bird: "Protect me from evil! Don't make me sick!" And to the bird, they say that in the past, people would say: "Protect me from the dead white man!" People, they say, in the past, constantly thought ill of the dead white man.
Source: Gramática Yuki lengua Tupi-Guarani de Bolivia
Some information provided by Michael Peter Füstumum
Information about Yuqui
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuqui_language
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Юки_(язык,_Боливия)
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idioma_yuki_(Bolivia)
http://www.language-archives.org/language/yuq
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/yuq
https://www.sorosoro.org/en/yuki/
https://www.scribd.com/document/599722485/Gramatica-Yuki-Lengua-Tupi-Guarani-en-Bolivia
https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/handle/2066/61996
Cocama, Emerillon, Guarani, Kaiwá, Makurap, Nheengatu, Old Tupi, Wayampi, Yuqui
Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 11.03.26. Last modified: 17.03.26
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