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Guaraní (Sprache) - Wikipedia Durch die vermehrte Verwendung des Guaraní auch im Bildungswesen und als Amtssprache trug man ansatzweise der Tatsache Rechnung, dass über 80 % der paraguayischen Bevölkerung guaranisprachig ist und ein beträchtlicher Teil nur rudimentäre Kenntnisse des Spanischen besitzt. Guaraní wurde schon in der spanischen Kolonialzeit zum Zwecke der christlichen Missionierung als Schriftsprache verwendet. Das Guaraní wurde zwar als ein wichtiges kulturelles Merkmal der paraguayischen Nation betrachtet, seine Verwendung blieb jedoch auf den mündlichen Gebrauch und auf Literatur vorwiegend folkloristischen Charakters beschränkt. de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guaran%C3%AD_%28Sprache%29   (369 words)

Tupí-Guaraní languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tupí-Guaraní includes the best-known language groups, like Guaraní and Tupí. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tupi-Guarani_languages   (71 words)

G. The Americas, 1000-1525. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History Tupi, Arawak, and Carib tribes populated the Amazon basin. The Guaraní expanded in the Paraná basin and practiced slash-and-burn agriculture. In Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, the Ona and the Tehuelche lived as hunters of guanacos and rhea. www.bartleby.com /67/570.html   (1721 words)

Guarani - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Guarani was one of the most important tribal groups of South America, having the former home territory chiefly between the Uruguay and lower Paraguay Rivers, in what is now Paraguay and the Provinces of Corrientes and Entre Rios of Argentina. The Guarani were also later described, amongst many other historical documents in existence today, in 1903, by Croatian explorers Mirko and Stjepan Seljan. Roland Joffe's 1986 film The Mission was about the Guarani and their role in a battle between the Jesuits and Portuguese Government over them. www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Guaran%ED   (2625 words)

Tupian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Tupi language group consists of 6 languages in the Tupi-Guarani sublanguage family: Tupi Antigo, Nhengatu, Tupinkin, Potiguara, Omagua, and Cocoma. It includes the best-known languages of the family, such as Guarani and Tupi Antigo. The most important subfamily of the Tupi languages is Tupi-Guarani. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tupi_(Language_Group)   (224 words)

Tupi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tupi is the name of one of the main ethnic groups of Brazilian indigenous people, together with the related Guarani. From the sixteenth century onward the Tupis, like other natives from the region, were assimilated, enslaved or simply exterminated by Portuguese and Spanish settlers, nearly leading to their complete annihilation as a culture. For the Philippine muncipality, see Tupi, South Cotabato en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tupi   (149 words)

Guaraní language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The reason why Guarani subsisted with enough vigor to be officialized was that the Jesuits elected it as the language to preach Catholicism to the Indians. Guarani was the language of the autonomous Jesuit-governed. Guarani - English Dictionary (http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/Guarani-english/): from *Webster's Online Dictionary (http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org) - the Rosetta Edition. www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Guarani_language   (385 words)

Guarani Renda > History > Brief history of the Guarani language The Guarani was implanted as a factor of union and consolation. The mestizos developed better in Guarani, since it was the mother tongue of his mother and of most of his relatives, and were using Spanish only in the protocolic acts with his spanish chiefs. The Guarani language, once exclusively oral, knew the writing with the help from the Spaniards, though logically it has been in a very inefficient way, since it tried to be represented, by means of the Spanish alphabet, sounds of the Guarani that this one did not possess: in this respect there were many differences. www.datamex.com.py /guarani/en/marandeko/brief_history.html   (4244 words)

Guarani The Guaraní are best known for their connection to the early Jesuit missions of Paraguay, the most notable mission foundation ever established in America, and for their later heroic resistance -- as the State of Paraguay, against the combined powers of Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay -- until practically all their able-bodied men had been exterminated. But while the Guaraní missions grew and multiplied the slave raiders were on the watch and saw in them "merely an opportunity of capturing more Indians than usual at a haul" and as "nest of hawks, looked at their neophytes as pigeons, ready fattening for their use" (Graham). Nearly all the forest tribes on the borders of Paraguay are of Guaraní stock; many of them are descendants of mission exiles, while in Paraguay the old blood so predominates in the population that Guaraní is still largely the language of the population. guarani.ask.dyndns.dk   (2612 words)

Guaraní (Sprache) Guaraní ist neben Spanisch eine der offiziellen Sprachen. Guaraní wurde schon in der spanischen zum Zwecke der christlichen Missionierung als Schriftsprache verwendet. Guaraní wurde zwar als ein wichtiges kulturelles der paraguayischen Nation betrachtet seine Verwendung blieb auf den mündlichen Gebrauch und auf Literatur folkloristischen Charakters beschränkt. www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Guaran%ED_%28Sprache%29.html   (179 words)

Encyclopedia: Tupi Tupi language family Guarani was one of the most important tribal groups of South America, having the former home territory chiefly between the Uruguay and lower Paraguay Rivers, in what is now Paraguay and the Provinces of Corrientes and Entre Rios of Argentina. From the sixteenth century the Tupis and the related Guaranis were assimilated, enslaved or simply exterminated by Portuguese and Spanish settlers, nearly leading to their complete annihilation as a culture. Tupi is the name of one of the main people of Brazilian Indians who first inhabited the Amazon region, then spreading southward, gradually occupying the Atlantic coast. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tupi   (208 words)

Wisdom Natural Brands: Media Library: Articles Guarani was the younger, fair-skinned brother, while Tupi, the older brother, had a darker skin. The yerba maté of Guarani, reflecting the agricultural and domestic nature of these Indians, provided many more beneficial properties than the Tupi's guarana, which symbolized their preoccupation with running wild and free and their reliance on brute strength and the need to physically excel. According to the legend, the ancestors of the Guarani at one time in the distant past crossed a great and spacious ocean from a far land to settle in the Americas. www.wisdomnaturalbrands.com /library/literature/lit_wh.htm   (1807 words)

Search Encyclopedia.com The Guaraní language is currently spoken by over 4 million people in Paraguay and in adjacent portions of Argentina, Brazil, and Bolivia. www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Folklore   (516 words)

Culture.7843 The Tupi inhabited the area north of the Guarani in Brazil and were first encountered by Portuguese explorers and colonists. In the sense that Guarani signifies a vaguely-defined group of acculturated Indians (including Mestizos), the entire rural population of Paraguay is often referred to as Guarani (Metraux 1948: 69). The missionized Indians became known as Guarani, while those who avoided conversion became known as Cayua or Caingua, a name which roughly translates as "men of the forest." The Cayua are also speakers of the Guarani language. lucy.ukc.ac.uk /EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7843   (1066 words)

REDUCTIONS FACTS AND INFORMATION In Reductions, the Tupí-Guaraní_languages were spoken, leading to the Língua_Geral which was a single consolidated dialect of Tupi-Guarani with Latin and Portuguese influence that was once the sole language of the Portuguese settlements outside of the centers of Crown power, and is still spoken in isolated communities in Northern Brazil. The indigenous people of Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil, the Guarani, would have been victims of the colonial conquest in South America, had the Jesuits not been able to persuade the King of Spain to grant that vast region to their care. Having first landed in South America in 1550, the Jesuits promised the Spanish monarch generous rewards, in the form of tributes, in exchange for exempting the Indians from hard labour to which all the other tribes were subjected. www.whereintheworldiskerry.com /reductions   (592 words)

CRL Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 6 July 1989 An account of Guarani possessor ascension which is not semantically based will have no way of predicting the different behaviors of the two classes of inalien- able nouns, which are shown here to pattern differently with respect to possessor ascension. It seems, then, that the possessive interpretation of juxtaposed nomi- nals in Guarani is achieved by means of the RP model plus a minimal overt clue in the construction: juxtapo- sition of the two nominals, where the reference point precedes the target (PSR-PSM). In Guarani, we have no overt indication that the rela- tion between the two nominals is a possessive one. crl.ucsd.edu /newsletter/3-6/Article1.html   (5386 words)

Revista 8 - Inglês Tupi societies were composed of horticulturist-hunter-gatherer-fishermen, while the former occupants of the coastal areas were mainly communities of hunter-gatherers belonging to the Macro-Jê branch. They formed communities of horticulturist-hunter-gatherer-fishermen whose livelihood was based on the intensive exploitation of roots (they moved site rather than plant new crops and did not resort to the use of ploughs or fertilisers – elements that are typical of a sedentary type of agriculture), hunting, fishing, catching animals and gathering plants and raw materials. The history of the Amerindian settlement of the territories that were subsequently to go to make up Brazil is indispensable to an understanding of the first contacts with the Portuguese and their subsequent colonisation of the land. www.instituto-camoes.pt /revista/revista8in.htm   (3035 words)

Tupinamba The Tupinamba, or better known as the Tupi, were important in the initial formation of Brazilian culture because it was with them that the Portuguese, French, and Dutch first made contact. The Tupi are best known for their interaction with the Europeans and their influence on Brazilian culture. One aspect of Tupi culture that horrified the Europeans the most is cannibalism. www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/southamerica/tupinamba.html   (535 words)

Chácore purahéi (Vortrag) La literatura en guaraní constituye evidentemente la "variante baja", de menos prestigio, y normalmente sólo merece una consideración marginal o queda totalmente excluida de la mayoría de las "historias de la literatura paraguaya". Las vierte en un guaraní popular que se averigua como su forma de expresión idónea porque resucita automáticamente las estructuras y valores sociales de la cultura guerrera y ancestral de donde habrían surgido. A esta "táctica" se suma el grado de presencia que tiene cualquier narrativa en guaraní, pues el tiempo gramatical del relato es generalmente el presente; los sufijos del pasado solo se emplean para insistir en lo remoto de una acción y lógicamente se omiten en este texto. www.uni-mainz.de /~lustig/guarani/chacpura/chactext.htm   (6345 words)

Guarani Tupã y Arasý pusieron a los recién creados frente a ellos, y dijo Arasý: "Mujer, que de mi naciste a mi semejanza, te doy por nombre Sypavé" (es la madre común de la raza americana); y al otro, que era varón, dijo Tupã: "te doy por nombre Rupavé" (el padre común de la raza americana). Tupã creó y dejó con ellos a Angatupyry, espíritu del bien, y a Taú, espíritu del mal, que les indicarían el camino que habrían de seguir en la vida. Tupã les dio muchos consejos para vivir en amor y procrear pacíficamente, y puso a disposición de ambos todos los seres y productos de la tierra. www.galeon.com /diosesgx/aficiones964214.html   (6345 words)

* Irene's Country Corner * - The Pirarucu Legend Tupã, the god of the gods, observed Pirarucu for a long time until he thought it was time to punish Pirarucu. Tupã called a god called Polo and demanded him to spread his most powerful lightning in the whole area. The fire of Tupã could be seen throughout the forest. www.irenescorner.com /home/seasonscorner/seasons/summer/tropfish/pirarucu.htm   (6345 words)

Tupi-guarani - Wikipédia Le lingua Tupi Página sobre Tupi de Ensjo (Iperusununga), em português e Interlíngua, com mapa onde as linguas pertencentes ao Tupi-guarani eram faladas. Astronomia Tupi-guarani Projeto desenvolvido pela UFPR para resgatar parte do conhecimento dos índios brasileiros. A Gramatica de Anchieta - 500 anos de lingua Tupi Artigo de Yonne Leite (Associação Brasileira de Antropologia e Museu Nacional/UFRJ), publicado na revista Ciência Hoje (2000, vol. pt.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tupi-guarani   (427 words)

Terra - Almanaque - Indios Tupi (2): um dos principais troncos lingüísticos da América do Sul, pertencente à família tupi-guarani Guarani (2): grupo lingüístico pertencente ao grande ramo tupi-guarani, porém mais característico dos indígenas do centro da América do Sul. Aguapé (tupi): awa'pé - redondo e chato, como a vitória-régia - plantas que flutuam em águas calmas -uapé - (awa - pewa - peba - peua). www.terra.com.br /almanaque/indios_5.htm   (2831 words)

WAIS Documents Paraguayan guarani is the principal survivor of the Tupi-Guarani languages once spoken over much of South America. But certainly Obviated ability to communicate in Guarani with the feelings of his poorer listeners is widely cited in Paraguay as an important factor in his political appeal." My comment: The language situation is very fluid, and the report by Michael Reid is the latest I have. The fact that Paraguay is, indeed, the only truly bilingual country in Spanish America (i.e.,everyone speaks two languages and there is no stigma attached to using the native language in any setting) makes it ripe for comparative study of some of the themes of bilingualism that you and WAIS colleagues have been bandying about. wais.stanford.edu /Paraguay/paraguay_guarani.html   (649 words)

Caviomorpha Animal Facts Chaffee Zoological Gardens of Fresno The paca (a Tupi word for the animal) is a medium sized, nocturnal agouti-type nut-predator. The capybara, the "master of the grasses" (native Guaran language), is closest to the cavies and the largest extant rodent. It plays a large role in the life cycle of such trees as the Brazil nut. www.chaffeezoo.org /animals/caviomorph.html   (1853 words)

LENGUAS TUPí-GUARANí Pertenecen a la familia el guaraní, el arahuacano, el chapacura, el mataco y el pano, entre otros. www.espnuevomilenio.org /encyclopedia/L/Lenguas_tup%ED-guaran%ED   (34 words)

SOUTH AMERICA: Reviving the Ancient Guaraní Pathways The web of pathways was woven in the Guaraní people's constant search for the ''Land Without Evil'', and connected what is currently the southern Brazil state of Santa Catarina with the Peruvian Andes, passing through Paraguay and Bolivia. On the Paraguayan side, there is a lack of road and hotel infrastructure for the tourist aspect of the project, and there are areas where social conflicts continue to simmer -- related to the demands of landless rural workers -- in the department of San Pedro, where conquistador Alejo García was killed five centuries ago. But on the return trip García was killed by the Guaraní in San Pedro de Ycuamandiyú, capital of the northern Paraguayan department of San Pedro. www.ipsnews.net /interna.asp?idnews=26899   (995 words)

Portal UNESP :: English :: The name Tupã, in Tupi, means God of Thunder or Good Spirit. The recently transformed city in a tourist spa has 63.333 inhabitants distributed in an area of 629 km² and is located in the West of the State of São Paulo, 524 km from the capital. www.unesp.br /eng/units/tupa.htm   (995 words)

New Page 1 Tupã y Arasy pusieron a los recién creados frente a ellos, y dijo Arasy: Mujer, que de mi naciste a mi semejanza, te doy por nombre Sypavé (es la madre común de la raza americana); y al otro, que era varón, dijo Tupã: te doy por nombre Rupave (el padre común de la raza americana). Tupã creó y dejó con ellos a Angatupyry, espíritu del bien, y a Tau, espíritu del mal, que les indicarían el camino a seguir en la vida. Tupã les dió muchos consejos para vivir en emor, pacificamente procrear, y puso a disposición de ambos todos los seres y productos de la tierra para usar sin desperdicios. www.uni-mainz.de /~lustig/guarani/tupa_rosicran.htm   (995 words)

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