The Tupi languages are a language family of 70 languages which are spoken by Indian tribesmen in South America. Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ...

The most important subfamily of the Tupi languages is Tupi-Guarani. It includes the best-known languages of the family, such as Guarani and Tupi Antigo. This article is in need of attention. ... Guaraní (gwah-rah-nee) [gwarani] (local name: avañeẽ) is a language spoken in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and southwestern Brazil. ... Tupi Antigo (or Tupinamba) is a extinct language which was spoken by Indian tribesmen in the coast of Brazil. ...

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Tupi is the name of a language family that was spoken along the Brazilian coast at the time of its discovery. The Portuguese, when landing in Brazil, found out that wherever they went along the vast coast of this newly discovered land, natives spoke a similar language which was then named "língua geral" (general language). It was systematized by the Jesuits and spoken until the nineteenth century in that region. It is still used today by Indians around the Rio Negro region, where it is called Nheengatu [ñe-engatOO], or "fine language". The Tupi languages are a language family of 70 languages which are spoken by Indian tribesmen in South America. ... Pedro Álvares Cabral Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. ... Língua Geral, literally general language in Portuguese, served as a common language during the vice-kingdom of Brazil. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... The Negro (Spanish: black) River, the great northern tributary of the Amazon River and the largest blackwater river in the world, has its sources along the watershed between the Orinoco and the Amazon basins, and also connects with the Orinoco by way of the Casiquiare canal. ...

The Tupi-Guarani language family is part of a larger Tupian stock, which may be related to the Gê (Je) and Carib families in a Je-Tupi-Carib grouping. Several of the major language stocks of South America are thought to be related. ...

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The Tupi language group consists of 6 languages in the Tupi-Guarani sublanguage family: Tupi Antigo, Nhengatu, Tupinkin, Potiguara, Omagua, and Cocoma. This article is in need of attention. ... Tupi Antigo (or Tupinamba) is a extinct language which was spoken by Indian tribesmen in the coast of Brazil. ... Nhengatu is a language which is spoken by Indians in the lower Vaupés, Içana, and Negro River areas of Amazonas, Brazil, and in parts of Colombia and Venezuela. ... Tupinikin is a language which is spoken by 800 Indian tribesmen in Espirito Santo and Bahia, Brazil. ... Potiguara is a language which is spoken by 6000 indian tribesmen in Paraíba, Pôsto Nísia Brasileira on the Baía da Traição, in the municipality of Mamanguape, Brazil. ... Omagua is a language which is spoken by less than 100 South American natives in Omaguas near Iquitos, Peru. ... Cocoma is a language which is spoken by Indian tribesmen in northeastern lower Ucayali, lower Marañon and Huallaga rivers area, Peru. ...

See also

• Tupí-Guaraní languages

Tupí-Guaraní is the name of the most important subfamily of the Tupí languages of South America. ...

External links

• Ethnologue classification for Tupi

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