Old Tupi

E890398

Old Tupi is an extinct indigenous language of coastal Brazil that served as a major lingua franca during the early colonial period and is a key member of the Tupian language family.

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Label Occurrences
Old Tupi canonical 2

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf extinct language
indigenous language
language
alsoKnownAs Brazilian language (historical)
Tupinambá language NERFINISHED
língua brasílica
documentedBy Jesuit grammarians
documentedIn 16th century
17th century
eraOfProminence early colonial period of Brazil
extinctionPeriod 18th century
glottocode oldt1249
hasCulturalRole key component of early Brazilian colonial culture
source of many Brazilian place names and plant and animal names
hasDescendant Língua Geral Amazônica NERFINISHED
Língua Geral Paulista NERFINISHED
Nheengatu NERFINISHED
hasFeature distinction between inclusive and exclusive first-person plural pronouns
lack of grammatical gender
nasal harmony
postpositions instead of prepositions
rich verbal morphology
hasNotableGrammar Anchieta's grammar of Tupi GENERATED
influenced Brazilian Portuguese vocabulary
Nheengatu NERFINISHED
ethnonyms in Brazil
toponymy of Brazil
ISO639-3 tpw
languageBranch Tupi–Guarani NERFINISHED
languageFamily Tupian NERFINISHED
lexifierOf Nheengatu NERFINISHED
memberOf Tupian language family NERFINISHED
morphologicalType agglutinative language
primaryWordOrder SOV
region Atlantic coast of Brazil
replacedBy Portuguese language in Brazil
spokenIn Brazil NERFINISHED
coastal Brazil
status extinct
subclassOf Tupi–Guarani language NERFINISHED
timeDepth pre-Columbian period to 18th century
usedAs lingua franca
trade language
usedBy Jesuit missionaries in Brazil
Portuguese colonists in Brazil
indigenous peoples of coastal Brazil
usedFor Christian missionary work
colonial administration in parts of Brazil
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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