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Map showing the main pre-Roman tribes in Portugal and their main migrations. Turduli movement in red, Celtici in brown and Lusitanian in a blue colour. Most tribes neighbouring the Lusitanians were dependent on them. Names are in Latin. Tribes, often known by their Latin names, living in the area of modern Portugal, prior to Roman rule: Indo ...
The name Portugal is a portmanteau that comes from the Latin word Portus (meaning port) and a second word Cale, whose meaning and origin are unclear. Cale is probably a reminder of the Gallaeci (also known as Callaeci), a Celtic tribe that lived in part of Northern Portugal.
Pages in category "Portuguese feminine given names" The following 96 pages are in this category, out of 96 total. ... Monica (given name) N. Nadia; O. Olga (name) P ...
The name Pirahã is an exonym; the Pirahã call themselves the Híaitíihi or Hiáitihí, [3] roughly translated as "the straight ones". [4] The Pirahã speak the Pirahã language. They call any other language "crooked head". [5] Members of the Pirahã can whistle their language, which is how Pirahã men communicate when hunting in the jungle.
The Portuguese colonists, all males, began to have children with female Amerindians, creating a new generation of mixed-race people who spoke Amerindian languages, including a Tupi language called Nheengatu. The children of these Portuguese men and Amerindian women soon formed the majority of the population.
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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.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:15th-century Portuguese people. It includes Portuguese people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.