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This is a list of the Brazil's Indigenous or Native peoples. This is a sortable listing of peoples, associated languages, Indigenous locations, and population estimates with dates. A particular group listing may include more than one area because the group is distributed in more than one area.
pwé, opwé - near; Légliz-la pwé lapòs-la. The church is near the post office. san - without; I kouwi jik bòdlanmè-a san soulyé. He ran all the way to the sea side without shoes. silon - according to; Silon jij-la nonm-lan té koupab. According to the judge the man was guilty. vizavi - in line with, with respect to; I ka maché vizavi ...
French Guianese Creole is a language spoken in French Guiana, and to a lesser degree in Suriname and Guyana. It is closely related to Antillean Creole, but there are some noteworthy differences between the two. Karipúna French Creole, spoken in Brazil, mostly in the state of Amapá.
The 2010 Brazil census recorded 305 ethnic groups of Indigenous people who spoke 274 Indigenous languages; however, almost 77% speak Portuguese. [3] Historically, many Indigenous peoples of Brazil were semi-nomadic and combined hunting, fishing, and gathering with migratory agriculture.
A creole language is a stable natural language developed from a mixture of different languages. Unlike a pidgin, a simplified form that develops as a means of communication between two or more groups, a creole language is a complete language, used in a community and acquired by children as their native language.
Spoken in the coastal cities of Sri Lanka and Malabar, India. Northern Indo-Portuguese. Daman and Diu Portuguese, spoken in Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, India. (old decreolization) Korlai Indo-Portuguese, spoken in Korlai, India. Southeast Asian. Macanese: Spoken in Macau and Hong Kong, China. (old decreolization) Malayo-Portuguese
Although Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking nation in South America, it has the largest population, area and economy on the continent. Thus, the South American trade bloc Mercosul uses Portuguese alongside Spanish as its working languages. A Spanish influenced Portuguese dialect is spoken in the northern Uruguayan border area
Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil, [5] being widely spoken by nearly all of its population. Brazil is the most populous Portuguese-speaking country in the world, with its lands comprising the majority of Portugal's former colonial holdings in the Americas.