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    Je–Tupi–Carib (or TuKaJê) is a proposed language family composed of the Macro-Je (or Macro-Gê), Tupian and Cariban languages of South America. Aryon Rodrigues...
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    group had learned Quechua, unaware that the local language was actually a Tupi–Guarani language. As the campaign drew to an unexpected close, Guevara became...
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    (PA-28RT-201) and EMB-711ST Corisco Turbo (PA-28RT-201T) and the EMB-712 Tupi (PA-28-181). Argentinian production was carried out by Chincul SACAIFI of...
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    Aryon Rodrigues (category Tupi language)
    Tupi-Carib Relationships. In Klein, Harriet E. Manelis & Louisa R. Stark (editoras), South American Indian languages: retrospect and prospect. Austin:...
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  • (definition) from Tupi *ɨβasaí, via Brazilian Portuguese assaí, uaçaí, açaí. Ani (definition) from Tupi *anúʔí. Agouti (definition) from Tupi–Guaraní akutí...
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    indigenous peoples of South America. They are distinguished from the related Tupi by their use of the Guarani language. The traditional range of the Guarani...
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    the sandbox tree, also known as possumwood, monkey no-climb, assacu (from Tupi asaku) and jabillo, is an evergreen tree in the family Euphorbiaceae, native...
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    irregular morphology with the Tupi and Carib families, and Rodrigues (2000) and Ribeiro connect them all as a Je–Tupi–Carib family. Pache (2018) suggests...
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    lexical similarities with the Irantxe, Taruma, Katukina-Katawixi, Puinave-Kak, Tupi, Arawa, Guahibo, and Jivaro language families due to contact. Yanomami is...
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  • this can be seen in works like her 1942 sculpture “Yara,” inspired by the Tupi or Guarani Indian myth of a man-eating river goddess. Yara would sing her...
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    centuries, including well-known accounts by Jean de Léry and Hans Staden, whose story of his encounter with the Tupi Indians on the coast of São Paulo was extraordinarily...
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    Evidence for Tupi-Carib relationships. In South American Indian Languages: Retrospect and Prospect, ed. HE Manelis Klein, LR Stark, pp. 371–404. Austin: University...
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    comprised several large indigenous ethnic groups (e.g., the Tupis, Guaranis, Gês, and Arawaks). The Tupi people were subdivided into the Tupiniquins and Tupinambás...
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    Roosmalen. Though relatively recently discovered, it has been known to the local Tupi people as caitetu munde, which means "great peccary which lives in pairs"...
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    Maned wolf (redirect from Lobo De Crin)
    "wolf", originates from the Latin lupus. Guará and aguará originated from tupi-guarani agoa'rá, "by the fuzz". It also is called borochi in Bolivia. Although...
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    Macro-Jê (it has been proposed that these three families could form a Je-Tupi-Carib superfamily). A few languages extensively use prefixes and even more...
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  • Deaths in May 2024 (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    Washington Rodrigues, 87, Brazilian football color commentator (Super Rádio Tupi). Katherine Wei-Sender, 93, Chinese-American bridge player and author. Hans-Georg...
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    Native American–derived names include tocandira, and tocanquibira, from the Tupi–Guarani tuca-ndy, which translates to "the one wounding deeply". Other names...
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  • Evolution of languages (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    "As consoantes do Proto-Tupí". In Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues (eds). Linguas e culturas Tupi, p. 167–203. Campinas: Curt...
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    Jesuits (redirect from Compañía de Jesús)
    later formalized by Avignon missionary Alexandre de Rhodes with his 1651 trilingual dictionary); Tupi (the main language of Brazil); and the pioneering...
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    stone-using natives divided into several tribes, many of whom shared the same Tupi–Guarani language family, and fought among themselves. Early names for the...
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    and Tupi language families due to contact. A discussion of lexical and phonological correspondences between the Nadahup (Vaupés-Japurá) and Tupi languages...
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    Quechua and Aymara of the Andean regions, the Quiché of Central America, the Tupi-Guaraní in today's Brazil, the Guaraní in Paraguay and the Mapuche in Chile...
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    some of the largest language families include the Quechua, Arawak, and Tupi-Guarani families of South America, the Uto-Aztecan, Oto-Manguean, and Mayan...
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  • (Tupí-Guaraní) as an active–stative language". In Payne, Doris L. (ed.). Amazonian linguistics: Studies in lowland South American languages. Austin: University...
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    la terre de Brésil; Latin: Historia Navigationis in Brasiliam, quae et America Dicitur) is an account published by the French Huguenot Jean de Léry in...
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    towards Native American languages. In Brazil, friars learned and promoted the Tupi language. In many Spanish colonies, Spanish missionaries often learned local...
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    Turkish: "takke", Urdu, Hindi "topi", टोपी ٹوپی, ALA-LC: "ṭopī", Bengali: টুপি, ṭupi, Somali: "Koofi") Irfan, Bilal; Yaqoob, Aneela; Irfan, Bilal; Yaqoob, Aneela...
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    Trumaí Chapakura Charrúa Chibcha Chikito Chirino Choko Cholona Chon Tukáno Tupi-Guaraní Tuyuneiri Vilela-Chulupí Witóto Xíbaro (Shiwora, Shuara) Xiraxara...
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    Maracanã Stadium (category Sports venues in Rio de Janeiro (city))
    empties into Guanabara Bay. The name "Maracanã" derives from the indigenous Tupi–Guarani word for a type of parrot which inhabited the region. The stadium...
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