Editing Ticuna language (section)

=== Brazil ===
Ticuna is the Indigenous language most widely spoken in Brazil.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Skilton|first=Amalia|date=2021|title=Ticuna (tca) language documentation: A guide to materials in the California Language Archive|url=http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/24972|journal=Language Documentation & Conservation|language=en-US|volume=15|pages=153–189|hdl=10125/24972|issn=1934-5275}}</ref>

Despite being home to more than 50% of the Ticunas, Brazil has only recently started to invest in native language education. Brazilian Ticunas now have a written literature and an education provided by the Brazilian [[Fundação Nacional do Índio|National Foundation for the Indian]] (FUNAI) and the [[Ministry of Education (Brazil)|Ministry of Education]]. Textbooks in Ticuna are used by native teachers trained in both Portuguese and Ticuna to teach the language to the children. A large-scale project has been recording traditional narrations and writing them down to provide the literate Ticunas with some literature to practice with.

Ticuna education is not a privilege, but part of a wider project carried on by the Brazilian government to provide all significant minorities with education in their own language.

In 2012, the Brazilian government launched an educational campaign for the prevention of [[Prevention of HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] and [[violence against women]], the first such campaign in Brazil ever conducted in an indigenous language.<ref>{{Cite news
| last = Associated Press
| title = Brazilian government uses indigenous language for the first time in anti-AIDS campaign
| newspaper = The Washington Post
| access-date = 2012-10-21
| date = 2012-10-11
| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/brazilian-government-uses-indigenous-language-for-the-first-time-in-anti-aids-campaign/2012/10/11/e756f500-13ed-11e2-9a39-1f5a7f6fe945_story.html
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| archive-date = July 5, 2022
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