• The Tupi people, a subdivision of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families, were one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil before its colonization...
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    Boitatá (from Tupi language), in Brazilian native folklore, refers to either a will-o'-the-wisp, a mythical fire snake which guards against humans setting...
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    Literatura Infantil y Juvenil Argentina, for the translation of Cabeza hueca, cabeza seca. ANCHIETA, José de (2004). Poemas: lírica portuguesa e tupi...
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  • Carbuncle (legendary creature) (category Articles with text in Tupi languages)
    beast in Paraguay. There are other attestations for anhangapitã from the Tupi-Guranani speaking populations in Brazil. To the colonial Spaniards and Portuguese...
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  • society. Quaresma is fluent in French, English and German, learning the Tupi language and how to play the guitar; however, he only reads works of Brazilian...
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  • dos anos 1960" (PDF). Historia e Literatura. Nascimento, Douglas (2014-04-22). "Breve história fotográfica da TV Tupi". São Paulo Antiga. Retrieved 2024-01-17...
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  • Curupira (category Tupí legendary creatures)
    (Portuguese pronunciation: [kuɾuˈpiɾɐ]) is a forest spirit in the myth of the Tupí-Guaraní speaking areas in the Brazilian and Paraguaian Amazon and Guyanas...
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    Meditação (Meditation — unfinished, 1850) Dicionário da Língua Tupi (Dictionary of Tupi Language — 1856) The city of Gonçalves Dias, founded in 1958, has...
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    Iara (mythology) (category Tupí legendary creatures)
    "mother of the waters"), is a figure from Brazilian mythology based on Tupi and Guaraní mythology. The Iara may have developed from the lore of the carnivorous...
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    Joseph of Anchieta (category Tupi language)
    (1595), Anchieta became the first person to provide an orthography to Old Tupi, the language most commonly spoken along the coast of Brazil. Anchieta is...
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    worked at different jobs before winning an audition as an actor for the TV Tupi broadcaster in 1958. While his acting career progressed, with Boldrin getting...
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    manifesto's iconic line is "Tupi or not Tupi: that is the question." The line is simultaneously a celebration of the Tupi, who had been at times accused...
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    American region, the rhea is known locally as ñandú guazu (Guaraní –or related Tupi nhandú-gûasú– meaning "big spider" most probably concerning their habit of...
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    is largely covered in a scrubby upland forest called caatingas, from the Tupi language, meaning white forest, since leaves fall during dry season, donning...
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    for Letras (Hispanic Literature) and Educación, mención: Castellano y Literatura (Education of Spanish language and Hispanic Literature). Latin and Koine...
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    Norala, Banga, Lake Sebu, Koronadal, Tantangan, Polomolok, Tampakan and Tupi, all in the province of South Cotabato as well as some other parts of Davao...
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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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    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 influential for European...
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    fishing. Goeje considered this Kurupi to be a cognate of the curupira of the Tupi people of Brazil, etc. The "Marana ywa" among the Tenetehara is also said...
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    ananás and abacaxi, from Tupi–Guarani naná and Tupi ibá cati, respectively (two species of pineapple), and pipoca ('popcorn') from Tupi and tucano ('toucan')...
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    studied the grammar of: Hungarian, Arabic, Sanskrit, Lithuanian, Polish, Tupi, Hebrew, Japanese, Czech, Finnish, Danish; I dabbled in others. But all at...
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    Andrade, as well as drawings by Tarsila do Amaral, articles in favor of the Tupi language by Plínio Salgado and poetry by Guilherme de Almeida. Its name comes...
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    important books were: O rio São Francisco e a Chapada Diamantina (1906) O Tupi na geografia nacional (1901) Atlas dos Estados Unidos do Brasil (1908) Dicionário...
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  • ethnography. Casudo and later commentators speculate the name mapinguari to be a Tupi-Guarani compound mbaé-pi-guari (Guarani: mbae "that, the thing" + pĭ "foot"...
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    including five series of Sítio do Picapau Amarelo adventures, one in 1952 on TV Tupi, another in 1964 on TV Cultura, one in 1967 on Rede Bandeirantes, another...
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  • Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil. São Paulo. Global. 2013. Navarro, E. A. (2013). Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua...
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  • common language spoken at Brazil's coast at time of the European arrival, Tupi.[citation needed] The /e-ɛ/ and /o-ɔ/ distinction does not happen in nasal...
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  • libels is placed by Charles IX of France. April – As a hostage at Iperoig in Tupi territory, José de Anchieta composes De Beata Virgine Dei Matre (The Blessed...
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    Brazilian soap opera Somos Todos Irmãos (1966), produced by the extinct TV Tupi, was inspired by the spiritist novel A Vingança do Judeu psychographed by...
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  • He spoke Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Latin, German, Hebrew, and Tupi-Guarani, and could read Provençal, Greek, Sanskrit, and Arabic. Pashko Vasa...
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