The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani. Rodrigues...
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The Tupí or Tupinambá languages (also known as Tupi–Guarani III) are a subgroup of the Tupi–Guarani language family. The Tupi languages are: Old Tupi (lingua...
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template Infobox language is being considered for merging. › Old Tupi, Ancient Tupi or Classical Tupi (Portuguese pronunciation: [tuˈpi]) is a classical...
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distributed subfamily of the Tupian languages of South America. It consists of about fifty languages, including Guarani and Old Tupi. The most widely spoken in...
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Guaraní people, forming the Tupi–Guarani languages. Guarani languages are linguistically different from the Tupian languages. The Tupi people inhabited 3/4 of...
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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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nheẽgatu), or Nenhengatu, also known as Modern Tupi: 13 and Amazonic Tupi, is a Tupi–Guarani language. It is spoken throughout the Rio Negro region among...
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The Northern Tupi–Guarani languages (also known as Tupi–Guarani VIII) are a subgroup of the Tupi–Guarani language family. Along with the Timbira and Tenetehara...
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is Nheengatu. Both were simplified versions of the Tupi language, the native language of the Tupi people. Portuguese colonizers arrived in Brazil in the...
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Tupi may refer to: Tupi people of Brazil Tupi or Tupian languages, spoken in South America Tupi language, a dead Tupian language spoken by the Tupi people...
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template Infobox language is being considered for merging. › The Paulista General Language, also called Southern General Language and Austral Tupi, was a lingua...
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language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian language family. It is one of the official languages of...
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‹ The template Infobox language is being considered for merging. › Potiguara is an extinct Tupi language formerly used by the Potiguara people of Brazil...
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Passion fruit (fruit) (category Articles with text in Tupi languages)
passion fruit (Portuguese: maracujá and Spanish: maracuyá, both from the Tupi mara kuya, lit. "fruit that serves itself" or "food in a cuia") is the fruit...
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Tupi or not Tupi, that is the question (in the original spelling, Tupy or not Tupy, that is the question) is a pun present in the Anthropophagic Manifesto...
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mutually intelligible, and also similar with other languages now extinct. The closest Tupí-Guaraní language seems to be Apiaká, spoken in Mato Grosso. There...
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Açaí palm (category Articles with text in Tupi languages)
The açaí palm (/əˈsaɪ.iː/, Portuguese: [asaˈi] , from Nheengatu asai), Euterpe oleracea, is a species of palm tree (Arecaceae) cultivated for its fruit...
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Che (interjection) (category Articles with text in Tupi languages)
In Tupi-Guarani, spoken by certain ethnic groups from Argentina to Brazil, che means simply "I" or "my." In the native Araucanian and Chonan language families...
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Yara (given name) (category Arabic-language feminine given names)
(or Iara) is a given name developed independently in the Arabic and Tupi languages, and also the anglicized spelling of a number of unrelated given names...
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numerous minority languages, including over 200 different indigenous languages, such as Nheengatu (a descendant of Tupi), and languages of more recent European...
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other important languages in Argentina with 200,000 speakers and 65,000 speakers respectively. Fifteen Indigenous American languages currently exist and...
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The Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (English: Dictionary of Old Tupi: the classical indigenous language of Brazil) was compiled...
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Cognate (redirect from Language overlap)
cognates, derived from the Old Tupi panapana, 'butterfly', maintaining their original meaning in these Tupi languages. Cognates need not have the same...
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Coumarin (category Articles with text in Tupi languages)
derived from coumarou, the French word for the tonka bean, from the Old Tupi word for its tree, kumarú. Coumarin was first isolated from tonka beans in...
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Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (redirect from A Modern Method of Ancient Tupi)
de tupi antigo (Modern Method of Old Tupi), 1998, and Dicionário de tupi antigo (Dictionary of Old Tupi), 2013, important works on the Tupi language. Eduardo...
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The Guarani languages are a group of half a dozen or so languages in the Tupi–Guarani language family. The best known language in this family is Guarani...
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Yerba mate (category Articles with text in Tupi languages)
plant and the beverage contain caffeine. The indigenous Guaraní and some Tupi communities (whose territory covered present-day Paraguay) first cultivated...
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Cashew (category Articles with text in Tupi languages)
(Portuguese pronunciation: [kaˈʒu]), also known as acaju, which itself is from the Tupi word acajú, literally meaning "nut that produces itself". The generic name...
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During the 16th-century colonization of Brazil, Old Tupi was the predominant language in the coastal regions of the country. Despite some dialectical...
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Paubrasilia (category Articles with text in Tupi languages)
Pernambuco wood or brazilwood (Portuguese: pau-de-pernambuco, pau-brasil; Tupi: ybyrapytanga) and is the national tree of Brazil. This plant has a dense...
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