Tupian languages information

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...

Akuntsu is a Tupian language of Brazil. Peaceful contact with the Akuntsu people was only made in 1995; they had been massacred by cattle ranchers in...

first two centuries of colonization, a language based on Tupian languages known as Língua Geral ("General Language") was widely spoken in the colony, not...

other important languages in Argentina with 200,000 speakers and 65,000 speakers respectively. Fifteen Indigenous American languages currently exist and...

agglutinating languages, Quechua, Pano-Tacanan languages, or Mapuche are found. Cariban and Tupian languages are slightly fusional, and Chon languages are the...

Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral (2012). "Tupían". In Campbell, Lyle, and Verónica Grondona (eds). The indigenous languages of South America: a comprehensive...

people, forming the Tupi–Guarani languages. Guarani languages are linguistically different from the Tupian languages. The Tupi people inhabited 3/4 of...

The Tuparí languages of Brazil form a branch of the Tupian language family. The Tupari languages are: Tupari Makuráp Nuclear Tupari Akuntsu–Mekéns (Sakirabiá...

Tupi or Classical Tupi (Portuguese pronunciation: [tuˈpi]) is a dead Tupian language which was spoken by the aboriginal Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those...

language isolates by continent Lists of languages List of proposed language families "What are the largest language families?". Ethnologue. May 25, 2019...

the Southwestern United States. The name "coatimundi" comes from the Tupian languages of Brazil, where it means "lone coati". Locally in Belize, the coati...

Guaraní; Bolivian Sign Language (closely related to American Sign Language). Indigenous languages and Spanish are official languages of the state according...

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...

black-legged seriema (Chunga burmeisteri). Names for these birds in the Tupian languages are variously spelled as siriema, sariama, and çariama, and mean "crested"...

these are toponyms derived from Tupian languages such as: Brazilian rivers: Capibaribe (Capibaras' river in Tupian language), Parahyba (from Paraíba do Sul...

of different languages. It is also an instrument of ethnic affirmation of Amazonian indigenous peoples who have lost their native languages, such as Barés...

Arawakan languages Waurá Mehinaku Yawalapiti Cariban languages Kuikuro Matipu Nahukwa Kalapalo Tupian languages Aweti Kamayurá Indigenous languages spoken...

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...

The Puruborá language of Brazil is one of the Tupian languages. It is also known as: Aurã, Cujubim, Burubora, Kuyubi, Migueleno, Miguelenho or Pumbora...

and Tupian; seven families only present at the regional level (Chocó, Guahibo, Saliba, Nadahup, Witoto, Bora, Tucano). The ten isolated languages are:...

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...

The Mundurukú languages of Brazil form a branch of the Tupian language family. They are Munduruku and the extinct Kuruáya. Loukotka (1968) lists the following...

to the breakup of linguistic unity. Tupian Proto-Tupian, the reconstructed common ancestor of the Tupian languages of South America, was probably spoken...

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...