Tupian

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Tupian is a major indigenous language family of South America, encompassing numerous related languages spoken primarily in Brazil and neighboring regions.

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Label Occurrences
Tupian canonical 3

Statements (59)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous language family
language family
alsoSpokenIn Argentina
Bolivia
Colombia
French Guiana
Paraguay
Peru
classificationStatus generally accepted as a valid genetic unit
continent South America
geographicCoreArea Amazon Basin
surface form: Amazon basin

central Brazil
hasSubfamily Juruna language subgroup
Munduruku language subgroup
Tupi–Guaraní
surface form: Tupi–Guarani language family
languageBranchCountApprox 10
languageCountApprox 70
majorBranch Arikem
Awetí
Juruna
Kawahib
Mawé
Mondé
Munduruku
Puruborá
Ramarama
Tuparí
Tupi–Guaraní
surface form: Tupi–Guarani
notableFeature includes both extinct and living languages
includes languages that served as lingua francas in colonial Brazil
one of the largest South American language families by number of languages
primaryRegion Brazil
wellKnownLanguage Akuntsu language
Ariquemes language
Asuriní of Tocantins language
Awetí language
Cinta Larga language
Gavião of Rondônia language
Guaraní
surface form: Guarani

Juruna language
Kayabí language
surface form: Kamayurá language

Karitiana language
Karo language
Kayabí language
Makurap language
Munduruku language
Nheengatu
Tupi peoples
surface form: Old Tupi

Parintintin language
Sateré-Mawé language
Surui of Rondônia language
Tapirapé language
Tuparí language
Urueuwauwau language
Wayoró language
Xetá language
Xipaya language
Zoró language
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Tupian
Description of subject: Tupian is a major indigenous language family of South America, encompassing numerous related languages spoken primarily in Brazil and neighboring regions.

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Guaraní subfamily Tupian