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Tupi-Guarani language - a family of South American Indian languages

American-Indian language, Amerind, Amerindian language, American Indian, Indian - any of the languages spoken by Amerindians

Guarani - the language spoken by the Guarani of Paraguay and Bolivia

Tupi - the language spoken by the Tupi of Brazil and Paraguay

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(In the Tupi-Guarani language, abaporu means "the man who eats man.") In addition to a thorough exploration of Amaral's contributions to this key national-cultural project, the exhibition and its catalogue are poised to reveal other aspects of the artist's practice, from her early work in Paris to her bracing depictions of the working class.

"Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil"

Linguists describe contemporary research on the Guarani languages, a subgroup of the Tupi-Guarani language family in South America.

Guarani Linguistics in the 21st Century

Ethnic distinctions may have existed in the populations brought to live at the missions by the Jesuits, in the same sense that the Chiriguano of eastern Bolivia, who also spoke a Tupi-Guarani language, was a distinct group that spoke a language related to that of the residents of the Paraguay missions.

La raza y la definicion de la identidad del "indio" en las fronteras de la America espanola colonial

Centroflora Group, based 250 kilometers west of the city of Sao Paulo, in Botucatu (meaning "clean air" in the indigenous Tupi-Guarani language), represents a case study of a company committed to sustainable practices.

Sustainability: where South America fits in the picture; Becoming more knowledgeable about the benefits of sustainability can make a big difference in your company's future development

It instead has invested on two fronts: It launched its own, new consumer-credit institution, Tail (which means "seeds" in the indigenous Tupi-Guarani language) to offer loans to the poor.

High interest: Brazil's consumer-credit business is getting ready to boom

One of the most persistent problems seems to be the lack of sufficient data on earlier stages of a language (family); at least this seems to be the case for Francoise Rose's inquiry on why Emerillon, a Tupi-Guarani language, does not show the same pattern of reduplication as the rest of the family.

Bernhard Hurch, editor: Studies on Reduplication