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Encyclopedia > Lingua Geral

Língua Geral, literally "general language" in Portuguese, served as a common language during the vice-kingdom of Brazil. It was spoken in what is now southern Brazil until the gold rush in Minas dos Matos Gerais, and later until the expulsion of the Jesuits by the Marquês de Pombal in the North.


A unified Tupí-Guaraní influenced by the Jesuits' Latin and the Portuguese of the settlers, it is still spoken by a few isolated river villages in the North.


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pidgin — FactMonster.com (343 words)
The earliest documented pidgin is the Lingua Franca (or Sabir) that developed among merchants and traders in the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages; it remained in use through the 19th cent.
Examples of pidgins based on non-European languages are Chinook, once used by Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest, and Lingua Gêral, based on a Native American language and used in Brazil.
lingua franca - lingua franca lingua franca, an auxiliary language, generally of a hybrid and partially developed...
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