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Languages Of Brazil
Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil, 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 Portuguese colonial empire, colonial holdings in the Americas. Aside from Portuguese, the country also has numerous minority languages, including over 200 different indigenous languages, such as Nheengatu (a descendant of Tupi language, Tupi), and languages of more recent European and Asian immigrants, such as Italian, German and Japanese. In some municipalities of Brazil, municipalities, those minor languages have official status: Nheengatu, for example, is an official language in São Gabriel da Cachoeira, while a number of Brazilian German, German dialects are official in nine South Region, Brazil, southern municipalities. Hunsrik (also known as ''Riograndenser Hunsrückisch'') is a Germanic language also spoken in Argentina, Paraguay a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borôro Language
Bororo (Borôro), also known as Boe, is the sole surviving language of a small family believed to be part of the Macro-Jê languages. It is spoken by the Bororo, hunters and gatherers in the central Mato Grosso region of Brazil. Phonology Bororo has a mid-sized phonemic inventory of seven vowels and fifteen consonants. Orthographic representations, when they differ from IPA, are shown in angle brackets (all from Nonato 2008, based on Americanist transcription). Vowels The vowel system of Bororo is somewhat cross-linguistically unusual in that it distinguishes roundedness only in its back vowels (although Crowell (1979) analyzes unrounded “back” vowels as central). The mid vowels /e ɤ o/ alternate with the open-mid (or " lax") vowels � ʌ ɔin apparent free variation. The unrounded back vowels /ɯ ɤ/ become central � ɘword-finally. Furthermore, �(i.e. word-final /ɤ/) is not distinguished from, and often surfaces as, front � As a result, /ɤ/ and /e/ are at lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanano Language
Guanano (Wanano), or Piratapuyo, is a Tucanoan language spoken in the northwest part of Amazonas in Brazil and in Vaupés in Colombia. It is spoken by two peoples, the and the Piratapuyo. They do not intermarry, but their speech is 75% lexically similar. Classification Wanano is a member of the Tucanoan language family, which is found in northwest Amazonia. The Tukanoan family can be sub-categorized into two groups: Western Tukanoan Languages and Eastern Tucanoan Languages, Wanano belonging to the Eastern Tucanoan family. The Eastern Tukanoan group is much larger than the Western Tukanoan family with 16 languages and around 28,000 speakers, while the Western Tucanoan family has 4 languages with around 3,000 speakers. Wanano/Piratapuyo belongs to the Northern branch of the Eastern Tucanoan languages, along with Tucano. The Wanano People Geographic Distribution The Wanano people live in northwestern Amazonia, on the Vaupés River. The diaspora of the Wanano people is s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tupiniquim Language
Tupiniquim (Tupinaki) is a language which was spoken by Tupiniquim people in the Brazilian states of Espírito Santo and Bahia Bahia () is one of the 26 Federative units of Brazil, states of Brazil, located in the Northeast Region, Brazil, Northeast Region of the country. It is the fourth-largest Brazilian state by population (after São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Mina ..., and belonged to the Tupi–Guarani language family. It is now extinct. Its former speakers have switched to Portuguese. It went extinct in the 1960s, but has been taught since 2004 as a second language. Only three words of Tupiniquim are known. References Tupi–Guarani languages Extinct languages of South America Tupiniquim people {{Na-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucano Language
Tucano, also Tukano or Tucana, endonym ''ye’pâ-masa yee uúku͂sehé'', is a Tucanoan language spoken in Amazonas, Brazil and Colombia. Many Tariana people, speakers of the endangered Tariana language Tariana (also Tariano) is an endangered Maipurean (also known as Arawak) language spoken along the Vaupés River in Amazonas, Brazil by approximately 100 people. Another approximately 1,500 people in the upper and middle Vaupés River area i ... are switching to Tucano. Phonology Consonants Nasal sounds n ŋare variants of voiced stops /b d ɡ/ between nasal vowels. Stops may also be heard as prenasalized ��b ⁿd ᵑɡafter nasal vowels. /w/ can be heard as a nasal bilabial semivowel in the environment of nasal vowels. Allophones of /ɾ/ can be heard as , .Aikhenvald, 1996. Vowels See also * Tucano people References Spanish Tukanos Bibliography *A Fala Tukano dos Ye'pâ-Masa: Tomo I: Gramática . Henri Ramirez (1997) · Manaus: Inspetoria Salesiana Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ticuna Language
Ticuna, Tikuna, Tucuna or Tukuna is a language spoken by approximately 50,000 people in the Amazon Basin, including the countries of Brazil, Peru, and Colombia. It is the native language of the Ticuna people and is considered "stable" by ethnologue. Ticuna is generally classified as a language isolate, but may be related to the extinct Yuri language (see Tïcuna-Yuri) and there has been some research indicating similarities between Ticuna and Carabayo. It is a tonal language, and therefore the meaning of words with the same phonemes can vary greatly simply by changing the tone used to pronounce them. Tïcuna is also known as Magta, Maguta, Tucuna/Tukuna, and Tukna. Classification Some have tentatively associated the Ticuna language within the proposals of the macro-arawakano or with macro-tukano stocks, although these classifications are highly speculative given the lack of evidence. A more recent hypothesis has linked Yuri-Ticuna with the Saliban and Hoti languages in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirahã Language
Pirahã (also spelled ''Pirahá, Pirahán''), or Múra-Pirahã, is the indigenous language of the Pirahã people of Amazonas, Brazil. The Pirahã live along the Maici River, a tributary of the Amazon River. Pirahã is the only surviving dialect of the Mura language; all others having died out in the last few centuries as most groups of the Mura people have shifted to Portuguese. Due to this, Pirahã can be considered its own language now, as no other Mura dialects have survived. Suspected relatives, such as Matanawi, are also extinct. Pirahã is estimated to have between 250 and 380 speakers. It is not in immediate danger of extinction, as its use is vigorous and the Pirahã community is mostly monolingual. The Pirahã language is the subject of various controversial claims; for example, that it provides evidence against linguistic relativity. The controversy is compounded by the difficulty of learning the language; the number of linguists with field experience in Pirah� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nheengatu Language
The Nheengatu or Nenhengatu language (Tupi: , Nheengatu from Rio Negro: , Traditional Nheengatu: , and Tapajoawaran Nheengatu: ), or Nenhengatu, also known as Modern Tupi and Amazonic Tupi, is a Tupi–Guarani languages, Tupi–Guarani language. It is spoken throughout the Rio Negro (Amazon), Rio Negro region among the Baniwa, Baré people, Baré and Warekena peoples, mainly in the municipality of São Gabriel da Cachoeira and the state of Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas, Brazil. Since 2002, it has been one of the state's official languages, along with Baníwa do Içana language, Baníwa, Yepá-masã, and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Outside of the Rio Negro region, the Nheengatu Language has more dispersed speakers in the Baixo Amazonas region (in the state of Amazonas (Brazilian state), Amazonas), among the Sateré-Mawé, Maraguá and Mura people. There in the Tapajós, Baixo Tapajós and the state of Pará, it is being revitalized by the people of the region, such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadëb Language
Nadëb or Kaburi is a Nadahup language The Nadahup languages, also known as Makú (Macú) or ''Vaupés–Japurá'', form a small language family in Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela. The name ''Maku people (other), Makú'' is pejorative, being derived from an Arawakan language ... of the Brazilian Amazon, along the Uneiuxi, Japura, and Negro rivers. Various names for it include ''Nadöbö, Xïriwai, Hahöb, Guariba/Wariwa, Kaborí, Anodöub'', sometimes compounded with the term '' Maku'', as in ''Maku do Paraná Boá-Boá'' after one of the rivers in Nadëb territory. Phonology All vowels except for /e, ɤ, o/ have nasalized counterparts. Consonants References External links Nadëb basic lexicon at the Global Lexicostatistical Database Languages of Brazil Nadahup languages Object–subject–verb languages {{indigenousAmerican-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaingang Language
The Kaingang language (also spelled Kaingáng) is a Southern Jê languages, Southern Jê language spoken by the Kaingang people of southern Brazil. The Kaingang nation has about 30,000 people, and about 60–65% speak the language. Most also speak Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese. Overview The Kaingang language is a member of the Jê languages, Jê family, the largest language family in the Macro-Jê languages, Macro-Jê stock. The Kaingang territory occupies the modern states of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Paraná (state), Paraná, Santa Catarina (state), Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (and, until the beginning of the 20th century, Misiones Province, Misiones, Argentina). Today they live in around 30 indigenous lands (similar to Native American reservations), especially in Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná. In the 1960s, due to a missionary interest conducted by the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), the language was studied by Ursula Wiesemann. Names The Kaingang and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guarani Language
Guarani (Avañe'ẽ), also called Paraguayan Guarani, is a language of South America that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian languages, Tupian language family. It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay (along with Spanish language, Spanish), where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and where half of the rural population are monolingual speakers of the language. Variants of the language are spoken by communities in neighboring countries including parts of northeastern Argentina, southeastern Bolivia and southwestern Brazil. It is a second official language of the Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Corrientes Province, Corrientes since 2004 and in the Municipalities of Brazil, Brazilian city of Tacuru since 2010. Guarani is also one of the three official languages of Mercosur, alongside Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese. Guarani is one of the most widely spoken indigenous languages of the Americas, Native American langu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
