tupian

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İngilizce - İngilizce
Of the Tupi, pertaining to the Tupi or Tupi peoples
Agriculture, pottery, and stone working were practiced by them at the time of the conquest
The Tupi and the Guarani were originally the most powerful of the stock, which is hence also called Tupi-Guaranian
Designating, or pert
to, a linguistic stock of South American Indians comprising the most important Brazilian tribes
Tupian languages
Family of South American Indian languages with at least seven subgroups, spoken or formerly spoken in scattered areas from the Andes Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean and (with two exceptions) south of the Amazon River to southernmost Brazil and Paraguay. About one half of the 50 attested Tupian languages are extinct. The largest subgroup, Tupí-Guaraní, includes the extinct language Tupinambá, the source for borrowings of many New World flora and fauna terms into Portuguese and hence other European languages. Another language of the subgroup, Guaraní, is spoken as a first or second language by more than 90% of Paraguayans, who consider it a token of Paraguayan identity
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