Tupian languages
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The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani.
Homeland and urheimatEdit
Rodrigues (2007) considers the Proto-Tupian urheimat to be somewhere between the Guaporé and Aripuanã rivers, in the Madeira River basin.<ref name="SouthAmerica"/> Much of this area corresponds to the modern-day state of Rondônia, Brazil. Five of the ten Tupian branches are found in this area, as well as some Tupi–Guarani languages (especially Kawahíb), making it the probable urheimat of these languages and maybe of its speaking peoples. Rodrigues believes the Proto-Tupian language dates back to around 3,000 BC.
Language contactEdit
Tupian languages have extensively influenced many language families in South America. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Arawa, Bora-Muinane, Guato, Irantxe, Jivaro, Karib, Kayuvava, Mura-Matanawi, Taruma, Trumai, Yanomami, Harakmbet, Katukina-Katawixi, Arawak, Bororo, Karaja, Macro-Mataguayo-Guaykuru, Takana, Nadahup, and Puinave-Kak language families due to contact.<ref name="Jolkesky-2016"/>
History, members and classificationEdit
When the Portuguese arrived in Brazil, they found that wherever they went along the vast coast of South America, most of the indigenous peoples spoke similar languages. Jesuit missionaries took advantage of these similarities, systematizing common standards then named línguas gerais ("general languages"), which were spoken in that region until the 19th century. The best known and most widely spoken of these languages was Old Tupi, a modern descendant of which is still used today by indigenous peoples around the Rio Negro region, where it is known as Nheengatu ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}), or the "good language". However, the Tupi family also comprises other languages.
In the neighbouring Spanish colonies, Guarani, another Tupian language closely related to Old Tupi, had a similar history, but managed to resist the spread of Spanish more successfully than Tupi resisted Portuguese. Today, Guarani has seven million speakers, and is one of the official languages of Paraguay. The Tupian family also includes several other languages with fewer speakers. These share irregular morphology with the Je and Carib families, and Rodrigues connects them all as a Je–Tupi–Carib family.<ref>Rodrigues A. D., 2000, "‘Ge–Pano–Carib’ X ‘Jê–Tupí–Karib’: sobre relaciones lingüísticas prehistóricas en Sudamérica", in L. Miranda (ed.), Actas del I Congreso de Lenguas Indígenas de Sudamérica, Tome I, Lima, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Facultad de lenguas modernas, p. 95–104.</ref>
Rodrigues & Cabral (2012)Edit
Rodrigues & Cabral (2012) list ten branches of Tupian, which cluster into Western Tupian and Eastern Tupian.<ref name="SouthAmerica">Rodrigues, Aryon Dall'Igna, and Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral (2012). "Tupían". In Campbell, Lyle, and Verónica Grondona (eds). The indigenous languages of South America: a comprehensive guide. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.</ref> Within Western and Eastern Tupian, the most divergent branches are listed first, followed by the core branches.
- Tupian
Meira and Drude (2015) posit a branch uniting Mawé and Aweti with Tupi-Guarani, also known as Maweti-Guarani.<ref name="MAG">Meira, Sérgio and Sebastian Drude (2015). "A preliminary reconstruction of proto-Maweti-Guarani segmental phonology". Boletim do Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, série Ciências Humanas, 10(2):275–296. {{#invoke:doi|main}}</ref> Purubora may form a branch together with Ramarama.
Jolkesky (2016)Edit
Internal classification by Jolkesky (2016):<ref name="Jolkesky-2016">Jolkesky, Marcelo Pinho De Valhery. 2016. Estudo arqueo-ecolinguístico das terras tropicais sul-americanas. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Brasília.</ref>
(† = extinct)
- Tupi family
- Arikem
- Monde
- Ramarama-Purubora
- Tupari
- Makurap
- Tupari, Nuclear
- Sakurabiat-Akuntsu
- Kepkiriwat Template:Extinct
- Tupari
- Wayoro
- Tupi, Nuclear
- Juruna
- Munduruku
- Mawe-Aweti-Tupi-Guarani
- Satere-Mawe
- Aweti-Tupi-Guarani
- Aweti
- Tupi-Guarani (see)
Galucio et al. (2015)Edit
Galucio et al. (2015) give the following phylogenetic tree of Tupian, based on a computational phylogenetic analysis.<ref name="Galucio-Meira-2015">Template:Cite journal</ref>
- Tupian
VocabularyEdit
Loukotka (1968) lists the following basic vocabulary items.<ref name="Loukotka">Template:Cite book</ref>
Language | Branch | head | ear | tooth | hand | one | two | three |
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Tupi | Tupi | a-kang | nambi | táña | pó | peteĩ | mokoĩ | mbohapüi |
Tupinamba | Tupi | a-kán | nambü | ráña | pó | angepé | mokoin | musaput |
Potiguára | Tupi | a-kanga | nambi | tañha | in-bó | oyepe | mokoy | mosapür |
Ñeéngatu | Tupi | a-kanga | namü | taña | pó | yepé | mokoin | musapeire |
Guaraní | Guaraní | ãkan | nambi | apen-kun | pó | peteí | mokói | mbhápira |
Apapokúva | Guaraní | pó | aépi | mokõi | moapi | |||
Chiripá | Guaraní | rakã | nambi | aépi | ||||
Cainguá | Guaraní | aká | nambi | kú | pó | petein | mókoin | mbohapi |
Mbyhá | Guaraní | che-ahká | chen-nambüh | che-rain | cheh-pó | peteí | mokoi | mboapü |
Canoeiros | Guaraní | eaushmã | de-pó | |||||
Shetá | Guaranized | sh-aka | che-nambi | tienai | che-pó | matinkam | mokoi | ñiiru |
"S. Dourados" | Guaranized | ñ-ãka | elaːme | nénai | eː-po | uaːi | moːgai | mágatei |
Guayaquí | Guaranized | ni-aka | nambi | ã | i-pá | eteyã | meno | tanã |
Tapirapé | Tapirapé | dzyane-akánga | dzyane-inamí | dzyane-roi | dzyane-pó | anchepé | mukúi | mãpít |
Kamayurá | Kamayurá | ye-akang | ye-nami | ye-nai | ye-po | yepete | mokoi | moapit |
Awití | Kamayurá | apot | inte-yambe | inte-ngu | i-po | mayepete | monkói | munitaruka |
Arawiné | Kamayurá | ne-nami | ye-po | |||||
Anambé | Pará | a-kánga | hä-nambi | se-raña | pó | yanäpo | mukuẽ | muhapi |
Takuñapé | Pará | |||||||
Guajajára | Northern | akã | sane-inamú | e-rai | sane-pó | metéi | mukúi | nairúi |
Tembé | Northern | he-akã | he-nami | he-rái | he-pó | petei | mokui | moãpi |
Manajé | Northern | he-akü | he-namí | he-rĩ | he-pó | chipei | mokú | moapi |
Turiwára | Northern | ne-akánga | ne-nami | ne-ráĩ | ne-pó | petei | mokoi | moapiri |
Kaapor | Northern | ne-kang | nambi | ne-roi | n-pó | petei | mukoin | oapíre |
Makirí | Central I | ai-akáng | ái-namí | ái-ráing | ái-pó | aipité | mokoíng | moapét |
Kayabí | Central I | parmió | oyepa | mokoi | ||||
Kawahyb | Central I | ae-akáng | ae-namí | ae-rái | ae-po | oyepé | mokõi | irumaé |
Parintintin | Central II | ae-akáng | ae-nambí | ae-rai | ae-po | eyepé | mokoĩ | |
Wiraféd | Central II | ai-akán | ai-namí | ai-rai | aí-po | ayipe | mokoi | |
Takwatíp | Central II | ai-kánga | ai-nami | ai-rain | ai-pó | ayepeːi | mokoːin | |
Dawahib | Central II | ay-akan | ay-nambí | ay-rãi | ay-põãpká | |||
Catuquinarú | Central II | taka-sú | saña | punü | ||||
Oyampi | Guiana | ea-kang | i-nami | e-ráñ | né-po | pesi | mukugue | mapur |
Emerillon | Guiana | é-ankang | é-námi | é-rai | é-po | mozepé | mokoñe | maʔapuit |
Apiaká | Guiana | ai-kana | ai-nembía | ai-raña | ai-poa | mayupé | mokõñ | boapui |
Omagua | Amazonas | yakó | námi | sáy | póa | wépi | mokwéshe | mosapröke |
Cocama | Amazonas | yakö | námi | dzái | púwa | wípi | mokoíka | motsapwöka |
Cocamilla | Amazonas | yákö | námi | tsái | púa | uípi | mokuíka | motsapölika |
Chiriguano | Chiriguano | ankã | námbi | hai | de-pó | penti | mbokui | mbapui |
Guarayo | Chiriguano | che-ãka | che-nambí | che-raí | che-pó | nyepeĩ | nyuenió | mosapĩ |
Pauserna | Chiriguano | aká | nambi | rahü | póo | monopedo | mokóe | hebü |
Tapieté | Chiriguano | y-anka | ya-nimbi | ya-ninay | ya-ndepo | penté | monké | maʔap |
Chané | Chiriguano | se-ãká | se-ndambí | se-rãi | se-pó | mompetí | mokoi | mboapi |
Siriono | Chiriguano | e-ãnkĩ | e-isa | e-rẽy | e-o | ekomiĩ | nedemu | dedemu |
Joka | Chiriguano | ãcha | ká | déchatu | ||||
Yuruna | Yuruna | se-tabá | yashiugá | se-yan | uvá | duáyo | nauá | nauámbo |
Shipaya | Yuruna | tabá | enshugá | oayá | uvuá | memé | bidá | mévau |
Manitsauá | Yuruna | naibuá | huangá | |||||
Mundurucú | Mundurucú | waá | wa-naibé | woi-noi | wo-ipo | pantá | shepsheptá | chebapitá |
Curuaya | Mundurucú | uása | uampí | ñai | bi | dá | porákã | teboazem |
Mawé | Mawé | u-yakída | u-yahapé | u-háĩ | u-ipó | endup | tépui | muén |
Itogapúc | Itogapúc | n-aká | n-akiribe | yãi | parobé | mutírem | yagarekóm | pairóbtem |
Ramarama | Itogapúc | n-akiribé | niãng | i-pabé | ||||
Urumí | Itogapúc | in-aká | in-akurape | i-pabe | uenakaveu | ishirange | itamaiun | |
Urukú | Itogapúc | óña-áká | on-aküravé | i-pábe | motírem | yegárokum | pagodnóbtem | |
Arara | Itogapúc | motürem | yegárkom | koirẽm | ||||
Arikém | Arikém | a | risába | ñãya | pu | mundápa | patám | moyúm |
Caritiana | Arikém | risopo | noñno | |||||
Macuráp | Macuráp | wakaräte | ua-pishevéta | u-ñamñem | owõte | uéreːket | nemtuté | |
Kanua | Macuráp | ki-aneːm | uwa-pitát | ki-nyai | o-po | kitsä | türü | kwaikärum |
Guratégaja | Macuráp | ki-anäm | kí-apitát | ki-nyai | ki-puaná | kitsä | teːre | kwaikiä |
Kabishiana | Macuráp | niaín | o-popí | |||||
Wayoro | Macuráp | yá | ne-vapáp | o-nyain | o-pitab | kiét | derät | wärehät |
Apichum | Macuráp | o-pitab | o-nyon | o-nebo | ||||
Tupari | Macuráp | ápaba | ábtsi | ñain | poː | kíäm | hürü | hürünoːm |
Kepkeriwát | Kepkeriwát | u-akãin | u-apiá | i-ñãin | ba | pangue | xatéte | sete-pangue |
Mondé | Mondé | a-ndará | u-nanimbé | u-im | amba-bé | amakim | parasherám | paiwutwuy |
Sanamaica | Mondé | hũ-ndáa | nambiap | h'-ĩn | hũ-mábé | mún | palisharú | waikun |
Aruá | Mondé | pan-at | pan-itiwä | pan-yĩn | pan-awä | miːn | busá | wauːm |
Digüt | Mondé | pan-dát | ním-piab | nĩ | babé | |||
Aruáshi | Mondé | sham-yaküb | shon-yain | bu |
Language | Branch | woman | water | fire | stone | maize | tapir |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tupi | Tupi | kuñá | ü | tatá | itá | abai | tapüíra |
Tupinamba | Tupi | kuñá | ü | tatá | itá | auvati | tapirusu |
Potiguára | Tupi | kuña | üü | tataː | itaː | ||
Ñeéngatu | Tupi | kuñan | üüg | tatá | itá | auati | tapira |
Guaraní | Guaraní | kuñá | ü | tatá | itá | avatí | tapií |
Apapokúva | Guaraní | kuña | ü | tatá | |||
Chiripá | Guaraní | ü | tata | avati | mborevi | ||
Cainguá | Guaraní | koñá | ü | tatá | itá | avachi | mborevi |
Mbyhá | Guaraní | kuña | ü | tatá | itá | avachi | tapií |
Canoeiros | Guaraní | uainvi | üg | itá | avashi | ||
Shetá | Guaranized | kuñá | ü | tată | itá | avachi | tapi |
"S. Dourados" | Guaranized | koːña | hoːñe | agel'á | iːtá | nutya | telaːgoi |
Guayaquí | Guaranized | kuña | ü | dadá | itá | waté | mberevi |
Tapirapé | Tapirapé | kudzá | ü | tatá | itá | awachí | tapiíra |
Kamayurá | Kamayurá | kuña | ü | tata | ita | avatsi | tapiít |
Awití | Kamayurá | kuñá | ü | tara | ita | avachi | tapií |
Arawiné | Kamayurá | ||||||
Anambé | Pará | kuña | ü | tata | ita | awat | tapiri |
Takuñapé | Pará | kuñá | tatá | ika | tapií | ||
Guajajára | Northern | kuñã | ü | tatá | itá | awachí | tapiíra |
Tembé | Northern | kuzá | ü | tatá | itá | awachi | tapihir |
Manajé | Northern | kuyi | ü | tatá | itá | awachí | tapihi |
Turiwára | Northern | kuñá | üa | tatá | itá | awachi | tapiíra |
Kaapor | Northern | kuza | üg | tata | itá | tapira | |
Makirí | Central I | kuñá | ih | tatá | avatí | tapiít | |
Kayabí | Central I | kuñá | auü | tatá | uachi | ||
Kawahyb | Central I | kuñá | ü | tatá | abachi | tapiít | |
Parintintin | Central II | kuñá | iü | tatá | itakí | avaté | tapiíd |
Wiraféd | Central II | kuñá | üü | tatá | itá | abasí | tapiít |
Takwatíp | Central II | kuñá | üa | tatá | abatí | tapi | |
Dawahib | Central II | kunya | üü | tatá | itá | tapiíra | |
Catuquinarú | Central II | uhehü | |||||
Oyampi | Guiana | nimene | heː | tata | ita | abati | tapiira |
Emerillon | Guiana | waimid | ih | tata | auasi | ||
Apiaká | Guiana | koñá | ih | tatar | ita | auasi | tapüra |
Omagua | Amazonas | uainú | úni | táta | itáke | awáti | tapíra |
Cocama | Amazonas | wáina | úni | táta | itáki | abati | tapíra |
Cocamilla | Amazonas | wáina | úni | dzata | idzáki | awáchi | tapíra |
Chiriguano | Chiriguano | kúña | ü | tatá | itá | avatí | mboreví |
Guarayo | Chiriguano | kuñá | ü | tatá | itá | avatí | mborevi |
Pauserna | Chiriguano | ekúre | ü | tatá | itá | ahuati | |
Tapieté | Chiriguano | tapipé | ö | tata | itakí | oati | orebi |
Chané | Chiriguano | arekóva | ü | tatá | íta | avatí | boreví |
Siriono | Chiriguano | kuña | ine | tatén | ita | ibashi | eãnkwãntoy |
Joka | Chiriguano | etú | in | tatá | yiwit | yuáshi | ngitíd |
Yuruna | Yuruna | kuñá | iyá | ashí | koapá | makatí | tõá |
Shipaya | Yuruna | uamiá | iyá | ashí | kuapasá | makati | masaká |
Manitsauá | Yuruna | kuñá | hidarú | hadzú | ita | maidzú | |
Mundurucú | Mundurucú | awiyá | hü | tasha | witáa | muirará | piho |
Curuaya | Mundurucú | áu | ü | titi | wítaʔa | mára | bíu |
Mawé | Mawé | oñañá | üü | äria | no | awatí | wewató |
Itogapúc | Itogapúc | mapái | ichi | chaná | iyá | nayá | iti |
Ramarama | Itogapúc | mapoia | utii | tianá | iá | nanian | nató |
Urumí | Itogapúc | shamon | noiábá | ||||
Urukú | Itogapúc | vochái | ichí | chaná | yáa | náya | natoː |
Arara | Itogapúc | ||||||
Arikém | Arikém | uspára | esé | somi | isoá | ngiyó | iruba |
Caritiana | Arikém | bisam | seː | isoː | pomo | irípo | |
Macuráp | Macuráp | arapíñam | ihi | ucha | éki | atiti | yahi |
Kanua | Macuráp | anamína | äkü | itaːtʔ | heːk | atsitsi | kwayatsu |
Guratégaja | Macuráp | anamina | iki | utaːt | äk | ||
Kabishiana | Macuráp | ikí | |||||
Wayoro | Macuráp | aramirá | ögö | agukáp | äk | atití | ikuáit |
Apichum | Macuráp | anamina | ügükap | äkügükab | äk | ||
Tupari | Macuráp | ãramĩrã | yü | koːbkaːb | äk | opab | takara |
Kepkeriwát | Kepkeriwát | buhi | amãni | garämbi | ok | zyaoːpá | uíto |
Mondé | Mondé | manzet | ü | kaing | ek | maikeː | uasá |
Sanamaica | Mondé | chipakchí | ü | kaːi | ä | maʔä | waːsaː |
Aruá | Mondé | ü | kaʔin | äk | |||
Digüt | Mondé | manzéyã | ipáva | pokáing | dzáb | máinkin | wachá |
Aruáshi | Mondé | mansät | ü | kain | äk |
See alsoEdit
- Apapocuva
- Indigenous languages of the Americas
- Languages of Brazil
- Língua Geral
- List of Spanish words of Indigenous American Indian origin
ReferencesEdit
Further readingEdit
- Rodrigues, Aryon Dall'Igna (2007). "As consoantes do Proto-Tupí". In Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, Aryon Dall'Igna Rodrigues (eds). Linguas e culturas Tupi, p. 167–203. Campinas: Curt Nimuendaju; Brasília: LALI.
- Ana Vilacy Galucio & al., “Genealogical relations and lexical distances within the Tupian linguistic family,” Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas 10, no. 2 (2015): 229–274. {{#invoke:doi|main}}
- Ferraz Gerardi, F., Reichert, S., Blaschke, V., DeMattos, E., Gao, Z., Manolescu, M., and Wu, N. (2020) Tupían lexical database. Version 0.8. Tübingen: Eberhard-Karls University. {{#invoke:doi|main}}
- Lexicons
- Alves, P. (2004). O léxico do Tupari: proposta de um dicionário bilíngüe. Doctoral dissertation. São Paulo: Universidade Estadual Paulista.
- Corrêa Da Ssila, B. C. (2010). Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: Relações Linguísticas e Implicações Históricas. Brasília: Universidade de Brasília. (Doctoral dissertation).
- Landin, D. J. (2005). Dicionário e léxico Karitiana / Português. Cuiabá: SIL.
- Lévi-Strauss, C. (1950). Documents Rama-Rama. Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 39:73–84.
- Mello, A. A. S. (2000). Estudo histórico da família lingüística Tupí-Guaraní: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais. Florianópolis: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. (Doctoral dissertation).
- Monserrat, R. F. (2000). Vocabulário Amondawa-Português, Vocabulário e frases em Arara e Português, Vocabulário Gavião-Português, Vocabulário e frases em Karipuna e Português, Vocabulário e frases em Makurap e Português, Vocabulário e frases em Suruí e Português, Pequeno dicionário em Tupari e Português. Caixas do Sul: Universidade do Caixas do Sul.
- Monserrat, R. F. (2005). Notícia sobre a língua Puruborá. In: A. D. Rodrigues & A. S. A. C. Cabral (eds.), Novos estudos sobre línguas indígenas, 9–22. Brasília: Brasilia: Editor UnB.
- Pacheco Ribeiro, M. J. (2010). Dicionário Sateré-Mawé/Português. Guajará-Mirim: Universidade Federal de Rondônia.
- Rodrigues, A. D. (2007). As consoantes do Proto-Tupí. In: A. S. A. C. Cabral & A. D. Rodrigues (eds.), Línguas e culturas tupí, 167–203. Campinas: Curt Nimuendaju.
- Rodrigues, A. D.; Cabral, A. S. (2012). Tupían. In: L. CAMPBELL & V. GRONDONA, (eds.), The indigenous languages of South America: a comprehensive guide, 495–574. Berlin/ Boston: Walter de Gruyter.
External linksEdit
- TuLaR (Tupían Language Resources)
- Swadesh lists of Tupi–Guarani basic vocabulary words (from Wiktionary's Swadesh-list appendix)
- "A Arte da Língua Brasílica", grammar of Tupi, by Father Luiz Figueira, in Portuguese
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