Hupda

Facts

  • Language: Hupda
  • Alternate names: Hup, Hubde, Hupdë, Hupdá Makú, Jupdá Macú, Makú-Hupdá, Macú de Tucano, Ubdé, Hupdë
  • Language code: jup
  • Language family: Puinavean, Hupda (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 1500
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Subservient to the Tucano and other Tucanoan Indians. Some nomadic between Brazil and Colombia.

    The term "Makú" has pejorative connotations; "Nadahup" is the preferred term for this group of languages.