Old Tupi, Ancient Tupi or Classical Tupi (Portuguese pronunciation: [tuˈpi]) is a classical Tupian language which was spoken by the indigenous Tupi people...
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Tupi–Guarani (/tuːˈpiː ɡwɑˈrɑːni/ /ɡwɑˈɾɑ-/; Tupi-Guarani: [tuˈpi ɡwaɾaˈni];pronunciation) is the most widely distributed subfamily of the Tupian languages...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Paulista General Language, also called Southern General Language and Austral Tupi, was a lingua franca and creole language formed in the 16th century...
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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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also has numerous minority languages, including indigenous languages, such as Nheengatu (a descendant of Tupi), and languages of more recent European and...
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16th-century Inca Empire) Classical Kʼicheʼ (a Mayan language of 16th-century Guatemala) Classical Tupi (language of 16th to 18th centuries Brazil) Awadhi (one...
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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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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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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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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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Carioca (redirect from Carioca language)
Brazil. The original meaning of the term is controversial, maybe from Tupi language "kari' oka", meaning "white house" as the whitewashed stone houses of...
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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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Arapaima (category CS1 Thai-language sources (th))
after floods in 2018. Its Portuguese name, pirarucu, derives from the Tupi language words pira and urucum, meaning "red fish". Arapaima was traditionally...
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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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Tapir (category Articles containing Tupí-language text)
tapir comes from the Portuguese-language words tapir, tapira, which themselves trace their origins back to Old Tupi, specifically the term tapi'iracode:...
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Alex Pereira (category CS1 Portuguese-language sources (pt))
His nickname "Poatan" means "Stone Hands" in the Tupi language, which however is not the ethnic language of the Pataxó. The nickname was given to him by...
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Maya (given name) (category Arabic-language feminine given names)
goddess Lakshmi. In the Tupi language, of southern Brazil, it means "mother", while Mayara means "grandmother". In the Māori language, the name means "courage"...
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language family of Tupi-Guarani, subgroup I. There are a few speakers in the Misiones Province and among Paraguayan immigrants. Mbyá is from the Tupi-Guarani...
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Icaraí (category Articles containing Tupí-language text)
Icaraí is the name of a beach and its surrounding neighborhood in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The origin of the neighborhood dates back to the parish...
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Ingá Stone (category Articles containing Portuguese-language text)
also called Itacoatiara do Ingá. The word Ita means "stone" in the Tupi language of the natives that lived in that area. It is a rock formation in gneiss...
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the Americas. The word anhinga comes from a'ñinga in the Brazilian Tupi language and means "devil bird" or "snake bird". The origin of the name is apparent...
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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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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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Abaporu (category Articles containing Tupinikin-language text)
Abaporu (from Tupi language "abapor’u", abá (man) + poro (people) + ’u (to eat), lit. 'the man that eats people') is an oil painting on canvas by Brazilian...
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