Old Tupi language - Early Tupi Scholarship - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Old Tupi Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Tupi Language - Early Tupi Scholarship
Tupi was spoken by an illiterate people, living under cultural and social conditions very unlike those found in Europe. It is quite diffe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Tupi Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Tupi Language - Phonology
Old Tupi language - Vowels. Tupi has twelve vowel phonemes, oral and nasal variants of six basic vowels. The oral vowels are: A — si...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Tupi Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Tupi Language - Sample Vocabulary
Old Tupi language - Colors. tinga = white piranga = red oby = blue, green îuba = yellow una = black Old Tupi language - Substances....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Tupi Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Tupi Language - Sample Text
This is the Lord's Prayer in Tupi, according to Anchieta: Oré r-ub, ybak-y-pe t-ekó-ar, I moeté-pyr-amo nde r-era t'o-îkó. T'o-ur nd...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Tupi Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Tupi Language - Grammatical Structure
Unlike most European languages, Tupi was an agglutinating language — with some polysynthetic features — that depended on the noun for...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Tupi Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Tupi Language - Morphology
Most Tupi words are roots with one or two syllables, usually with double or triple meanings that are explored extensively for metaphoric ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old Tupi Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old Tupi Language - Presence Of Tupi In Brazil
As the basis for the Lingua Geral, spoken throughout the country by both white and Indian settlers until the early XVIII century and stil...   » Read the article