The term General Language (Portuguese: língua geral) refers to lingua francas that emerged in South America during the 16th and 17th centuries, the two...

beginning of the 20th century. It constituted the southern branch of the Língua Geral. With influence on Brazilian toponymy, the Paulista General Language...

rather difficult to express with pure Tupi words. As the basis for the língua geral, spoken throughout the country by white and Indian settlers alike until...

Global. Navarro, Eduardo De Almeida (2011). Curso de Língua Geral (Nheengatu ou Tupi Moderno) a língua das origens da civilização Amazônica (PDF) (in Portuguese)...

Pombal prohibited the use of Língua Geral or any other indigenous language in Brazil. However, as late as the 1940s, Língua Geral was widely spoken in some...

language that they spoke was a Tupi-based language, named Nheengatu or Língua Geral, a lingua franca in Brazil until the 18th century. The region of São Paulo...

decreolization of the língua brasílica and the related língua geral paulista, then spoken in almost all of what is now São Paulo, a former lingua franca in most...

Portuguese post-creole that appeared in southeastern Brazil after the ban of Língua Geral Paulista as a marker of Jesuit activity by the Marquis of Pombal, this...

(also called língua geral of Amazonia, or lingua Brasilica) originated in the 17th century in what are now the states of Pará Maranhão, as lingua franca on...

Tupi languages are: Old Tupi (lingua franca dialect Tupí Austral) Tupinambá (dialects: Nheengatu a.k.a. Língua Geral as lingua franca, and Potiguára) Cocama–Omagua...