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  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to Tuva or its people or culture.
  • noun A Turkic language spoken around the area of Tuva.
  • noun Someone from Tuva.

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Examples

  • He was always given the seat of honor at the North end of the yurt, and while the guests were offered delicacies such as the fatty tail of a sheep, he inquiredin Tuvan, Kazakh, or Mongolianabout the well-being of each family and their animals.

    Visiting Galsan Tschinag in his Yurt Katharina Rout 2010

  • Rather, this recalls other choral traditions such as Tuvan throat singing or Genoese tralaleros, and the sheer force of it serves as a good reminder of what a noisy beast such a polyphonic choir can be when it's going at full throttle.

    I Predict A Choir juan.les.pins 2006

  • She had lost her wife, Ravent, a decade ago to Tuvan Syndrome—well, Ravent had died a decade ago, but Kamemor had lost her to the ravages of the neurological disease years before that.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • She had lost her wife, Ravent, a decade ago to Tuvan Syndrome—well, Ravent had died a decade ago, but Kamemor had lost her to the ravages of the neurological disease years before that.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • She had lost her wife, Ravent, a decade ago to Tuvan Syndrome—well, Ravent had died a decade ago, but Kamemor had lost her to the ravages of the neurological disease years before that.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • She had lost her wife, Ravent, a decade ago to Tuvan Syndrome—well, Ravent had died a decade ago, but Kamemor had lost her to the ravages of the neurological disease years before that.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • She had lost her wife, Ravent, a decade ago to Tuvan Syndrome—well, Ravent had died a decade ago, but Kamemor had lost her to the ravages of the neurological disease years before that.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • She had lost her wife, Ravent, a decade ago to Tuvan Syndrome—well, Ravent had died a decade ago, but Kamemor had lost her to the ravages of the neurological disease years before that.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • She had lost her wife, Ravent, a decade ago to Tuvan Syndrome—well, Ravent had died a decade ago, but Kamemor had lost her to the ravages of the neurological disease years before that.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • She had lost her wife, Ravent, a decade ago to Tuvan Syndrome—well, Ravent had died a decade ago, but Kamemor had lost her to the ravages of the neurological disease years before that.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

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