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Definition of Tupian

Tupian
Tupian Tu"pi*an, a. Designating, or pert. to, a linguistic stock of South American Indians comprising the most important Brazilian tribes. Agriculture, pottery, and stone working were practiced by them at the time of the conquest. The Tupi and the Guarani were originally the most powerful of the stock, which is hence also called Tupi-Guaranian.

Meaning of Tupian from wikipedia

- The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani. Rodrigues...
- Tupi–Guarani languages. Guarani languages are linguistically different from the Tupian languages. The Tupi people inhabited 3/4 of all of Brazil's coast when the...
- Proto-Tupian (PT) is the reconstructed common ancestor of all the Tupian languages. It consists, therefore, of a hypothetical language, reconstructed by...
- TuKaJê) is a proposed language family composed of the Macro-Je (or Macro-Gê), Tupian and Cariban languages of South America. Aryon Rodrigues (2000) based this...
- and the Southwestern United States. The name "coatimundi" comes from the Tupian languages of Brazil, where it means "lone coati". Locally in Belize, the...
- Vowel-consonant harmony, or consonant-vowel harmony, is a type of "long-distance" phonological ****imilation, akin to the similar ****imilatory process involving...
- languages; for example, in the Yucatec Maya language, yax is 'blue/green'. Tupian languages did not originally differ between the two colors, though they...
- South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian language family. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay (along...
- 150 Tupian Makurap east of Rondônia 50 Tupian Tupari Rondônia, coming from Mato Grosso 150 Tupian Tsakirabiat, A****su east of Rondônia 30 Tupian Wayoro...
- Tupi or classical Tupi (Portuguese pronunciation: [tuˈpi]) is a classical Tupian language which was spoken by the indigenous Tupi people of Brazil, mostly...