Maritsauá (Manitsawá) is an extinct
Tupian language
The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani.
Homeland and ''urheimat''
Rodrigues (2007) considers the Proto-Tupian urheimat to be somewhere between ...
of the state of
Mato Grosso
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, in the Amazon region of
Brazil
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.
Vocabulary
References
Tupian languages
Extinct languages of South America
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