Indigenous peoples of Brazil
The language of the Ticuna

Ticuna is an isolated language with no proven kinship to other languages. It has about 6,000 speakers in Peru, about 14,000 in Brazil, and about 5,000 in Colombia. Its speakers have a high degree of literacy in Spanish and Ticuna in Peru and many of them are bilingual in Spanish and Portuguese.
Apart from its official use in education, dozens of books are published in this language every year, both in Brazil and Peru. Those books especially use the writing system similar to those used in Spanish (except for the use of k instead of c) instead of a more specific system for the language. The first spelling also used qu and other conventions taken from the Spanish spelling.
Despite the fact that more than 50% of Ticunas live in Brazil, education in the indigenous language in Brazil is more recent than in countries like Peru. The Ticunas of Brazil now have at their disposal written and educational material provided by the National Foundation for the Indian (FUNAI) and the Brazilian Ministry of Education. There are native teachers, who know both Ticuna and Portuguese, and who use Ticuna textbooks for children. There is also a large project to compile traditional stories to record them in writing and provide literate Ticuna with some texts with which to practice. Currently, access to education in their own language is one of the objectives of the Brazilian government towards indigenous minorities.
The Ticunas of Peru have had native language education since the 1960s. The practical spelling used in Peru has served as the basis for the spelling used in the Brazilian educational system for the Ticuna. However, the texts available to Peruvian Ticuna consist almost exclusively of standard textbooks.
Ticunas in Colombia receive education only in Spanish, or have no access to education at all. Since the establishment of Ticuna schools in Brazil, some Ticuna have ventured to attend them. (Government programs seek to include all indigenous communities in their educational system, unfortunately the locations of the natives are distant and this always constitutes an obstacle to their access).
The new policies of the current government of Brazil (2019) may pose a risk for the conservation of this valuable native engua.
Ticuna is a tonal language, it shares several typological features with languages ​​of the region, although it has not been possible to detect a clear phylogenetic relationship with the other languages ​​of the region.
Reproduced and adapted from wikipedia.com