Old Tupi language - Vowels. Tupi has twelve vowel phonemes, oral and nasal variants of six basic vowels. The oral vowels are: A — similar to Spanish, according to Anchieta (IPA /a/). E — similar to the English E in "hell" (IPA /ɛ/). I — like EE in "seed" (IPA /i/). O — like the O of "hot" (IPA See also:

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Old Tupi language - Colors. tinga = white piranga = red oby = blue, green îuba = yellow una = black Old Tupi language - Substances. yby = earth itá = rock, stone, metal, mountain, island y = water, river ara = fire Old Tupi language - People. abá = man kuñã = woman kuñãtã = girl ûirá = childSee also:

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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 nde Reino! Tó-ñe-moñang nde r-emi-motara yby-pe. Ybak-y-pe i ñe-moñanga îabé! Oré r-emi-'u, 'ara-îabi'õ-nduara, e-î-me'eng kori orébe. Nde ñyrõ oré angaîpaba r-esé orébe, oré r-erekó-memûã-sara supé oré ñyrõ îabé. Oré mo'ar-ukar umen îepe tentação pupé, oré pysyrõ-te îepé mba'e-a'iba suí. Notice that two Portuguese words, "Reino" (Kingdom) and "tentação" (temptation) have been inserted, as no such ...

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As the basis for the Lingua Geral, spoken throughout the country by both white and Indian settlers until the early XVIII century and still heard in isolated pockets until the early XX century, Tupi left a strong mark on the Portuguese language spoken in Brazil, being by far its most distinctive source of modification. Tupi has given Brazilian Portuguese: A few thousands of words (some of them hybrid or bastardised) for animals, plants, fruit and cultural entities. The English-like pronunciation of R in Southern s ...

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Unlike most European languages, Tupi was an agglutinating language — with some polysynthetic features — that depended on the noun for most of its meaning. It lacked proper verbs, did not know of adverbs, prepositions or articles and had very limited role for adjectives (as they could not be used alone and could not be made into abstract nouns). The Tupi verb (i.e. the noun that appeared with verbal meaning in the sentence) was inflected by prefixation, but this inflection was not relative to "time" or "tense" but to linking the verb ...

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Most Tupi words are roots with one or two syllables, usually with double or triple meanings that are explored extensively for metaphoric purposes: kaa = bush / plant y = water / liquid / spring / lake, puddle / river, brook oby = green / blue a = round / head / seed Interestingly, the most common words tend to be monosyllabic: sy = mother / source ã = shadow / ghostSee also:

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Tupi was spoken by an illiterate people, living under cultural and social conditions very unlike those found in Europe. It is quite different from Indo-European languages. The first studies on Tupi were not made by trained linguists, but by Catholic missionaries imbibed with the will of understanding and converting to christendom those "wild savages" whose habits (like cannibalism, polygamy, body piercing, free love and the absence ...

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