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Before the first Portuguese explorers arrived in 1500, what is now Brazil was inhabited by several Amerindian peoples that spoke many different languages. According to Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues [ 18 ] there were six million Indians in Brazil speaking over 1,000 different languages.
According to Antônio Vieira, the children of the Portuguese learned the Portuguese language only at school. At least three lingua francas existed in Brazil, with two being the most prominent, namely, the Southern General Language , which disappeared in the early 20th century, and the Amazonian General Language [ pt ] , which gave rise to ...
The Tupi people, a subdivision of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families, were one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil before its colonization. Scholars believe that while they first settled in the Amazon rainforest, from about 2,900 years ago the Tupi started to migrate southward and gradually occupied the Atlantic coast of Southeast Brazil.
In the words of Brazilian tupinologist Eduardo Navarro, "it is the classical indigenous language of Brazil, and the one which had the utmost importance to the cultural and spiritual formation of the country". [1] Old Tupi belongs to the Tupi–Guarani language family, and has a written history spanning the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries.
When the Portuguese arrived in Brazil, they found that wherever they went along the vast coast of South America, most of the indigenous peoples spoke similar languages. Jesuit missionaries took advantage of these similarities, systematizing common standards then named línguas gerais ("general languages"), which were spoken in that region until ...
Other dictionaries and vocabularies of Tupi were published before. Navarro affirms that, until the publication of Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica (Vocabulary in the Brazilian Language) by Plínio Ayrosa in 1938, the lexicon of Old Tupi was practically unknown. Therefore, any dictionary made before that can be considered unreliable. [4]
Pages in category "Languages of Brazil" The following 173 pages are in this category, out of 173 total. ... Brazilian Portuguese; Portuguese language; Portuñol ...
At the end of the 18th century, the Portuguese crown, under the management of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, Marquis of Pombal, banned the use of the Paulista General Language, severely punishing those who used it, imposing, from then on, the Portuguese language in Brazil, to ensure Portugal's unity and identity as a nation, bringing the ...