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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Proto-Tupian (PT) is the reconstructed common ancestor of all the Tupian languages. It consists, therefore, of a hypothetical language, reconstructed by...
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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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Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral (2012). "Tupían". In Campbell, Lyle, and Verónica Grondona (eds). The indigenous languages of South America: a comprehensive...
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most widely distributed subfamily of the Tupian languages of South America. It consists of about fifty languages, including Guarani and Old Tupi. The most...
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agglutinating languages, Quechua, Pano-Tacanan languages, or Mapuche are found. Cariban and Tupian languages are slightly fusional, and Chon languages are the...
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first two centuries of colonization, a language based on Tupian languages known as Língua Geral ("General Language") was widely spoken in the colony, not...
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black-legged seriema (Chunga burmeisteri). Names for these birds in the Tupian languages are variously spelled as siriema, sariama, and çariama, and mean "crested"...
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Tupi people (redirect from Tupian people)
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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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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population that spoke many languages, they sought a means to establish effective communication among the many groups. The two languages were used in the Jesuit...
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Classical Tupi (Portuguese pronunciation: [tuˈpi]) is a classical Tupian language which was spoken by the indigenous Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those...
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close to those of the Tupian languages Nheengatu and Tenharim, which the Mura had once used as contact languages: Both the Tupian and Pirahã third-person...
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the Southwestern United States. The name "coatimundi" comes from the Tupian languages of Brazil, where it means "lone coati". Locally in Belize, the coati...
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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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or Xipaia) is an endangered language spoken in the Pará region of Brazil. It is one of the approximately 70 Tupian languages of South America. At last count...
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of different languages. It is also an instrument of ethnic affirmation of Amazonian indigenous peoples who have lost their native languages, such as Barés...
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Portuguese name (redirect from Portuguese-language surnames)
these are toponyms derived from Tupian languages such as: Brazilian rivers: Capibaribe (Capibaras' river in Tupian language), Parahyba (from Paraíba do Sul...
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Xingu Indigenous Park (category Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt))
Arawakan languages Waurá Mehinaku Yawalapiti Cariban languages Kuikuro Matipu Nahukwa Kalapalo Tupian languages Aweti Kamayurá Indigenous languages spoken...
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Potiguara is an extinct Tupi language formerly used by the Potiguara people of Brazil. It is comnsidered by Glottolog to be a dialect of Tupinamba. Potiguára...
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Jau-Navo language, or Chakobo (Panoan): the original Karipuna of Guaporé in Rondônia, Brazil; one of two assigned ISO code [kuq] Kawahib language (Tupian): the...
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effects due to intense language contact between a Tupí-Guaraní language and speakers of one or more non-Tupí-Guaraní languages. Rodrigues and Cabral (2003)...
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Tupi (category Language and nationality disambiguation pages)
to: Tupi people of Brazil Tupi or Tupian languages, spoken in South America Tupi language, a dead Tupian language spoken by the Tupi people Tupi oil...
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The Puruborá language of Brazil is one of the Tupian languages. It is also known as: Aurã, Cujubim, Burubora, Kuyubi, Migueleno, Miguelenho or Pumbora...
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live on the island's east coast. The Cariban languages share irregular morphology with the Jê and Tupian families. Ribeiro connects them all in a Je–Tupi–Carib...
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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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Linguistic homeland (category Articles containing German-language text)
to the breakup of linguistic unity. Tupian Proto-Tupian, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Tupian languages of South America, was probably spoken...
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extinct Tupian language of the state of Rondônia, in the Amazon region of Brazil. Other names include Sanamaikã, Sanamaicá, Salamãi. Mondé language at Ethnologue...
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The Mawé language of Brazil, also known as Sateré (Mabue, Maragua, Andira, Arapium), is one of the Tupian languages. It is spoken by 7,000 people, many...
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Gavião (redirect from Gavião language)
(Rondônia), an indigenous people of Rondônia, Brazil Gavião of Jiparaná, a Tupian language spoken by the Gavião of Rondônia, Brazil Gavião, Bahia, a municipality...
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