Old Tupi, Ancient Tupi or Classical Tupi (also spelled as Tupí) is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the aboriginal Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who inhabited coastal regions in South and Southeast Brazil.It belongs to the Tupi–Guarani language family, and has a written history spanning the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries. In the early colonial period, …

Guaraní (/ ˌ ɡ w ɑːr ə ˈ n iː, ˈ ɡ w ɑːr ən i /), specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (avañeʼẽ [ʔãʋãɲẽˈʔẽ] "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family of the Tupian languages.It is one of the official languages of Paraguay (along with Spanish), where it is spoken by the majority of the ...

Karajá, also known as Iny rybè, is spoken by the Karajá people in some thirty villages in central Brazil.. There are distinct male and female forms of speech; one of the principal differences is that men drop the sound /k/, which is pronounced by women.. Karaja is a verb-final language, with simple noun and more complex verbal morphology that includes noun incorporation.

A nasal vowel is a vowel that is produced with a lowering of the soft palate (or velum) so that the air flow escapes through the nose and the mouth simultaneously, as in the French vowel /ɑ̃/ (help · info) or Amoy [ɛ̃].By contrast, oral vowels are produced without nasalization. Nasalized vowels are vowels under the influence of neighbouring sounds. For instance, the [æ] of the word hand ...

Hunsrik (natively and Portuguese Hunsrik [ˈhunsɾɪk] or Hunsrückisch), also called Riograndenser Hunsrückisch or Katharinensisch, is a Moselle Franconian language derived primarily from the Hunsrückisch dialect of West Central German.The language has some recognition, mainly in Brazil.It has been an integral part of the historical and cultural heritage of …

Rio de Janeiro (UK: / ˈ r iː oʊ d ə dʒ ə ˈ n ɪər oʊ / REE-oh də jə-NEER-oh, US: / ˈ r iː oʊ d iː ʒ ə ˈ n ɛər oʊ / REE-oh dee zhə-NAIR-oh, Portuguese: [ˈʁi.u d(ʒi) ʒɐˈne(j)ɾu] (); literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the capital of the state of the same name, Brazil's third-most populous state, and the second-most populous city in Brazil, after São Paulo.

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau.

Portuguese is the official and national language of Brazil being widely spoken by most of the population. Brazil is the most populous Portuguese-speaking country in the world, being the only country colonized by the Portuguese in the Americas.. Aside from Portuguese, the country has also numerous minority languages, including indigenous languages, such as Nheengatu (a …

Plautdietsch (pronounced [ˈplaʊt.ditʃ]) or Mennonite Low German is a Low Prussian dialect of East Low German with Dutch influence that developed in the 16th and 17th centuries in the Vistula delta area of Royal Prussia. The word Plautdietsch translates to "flat (or low) German" (referring to the plains of northern Germany or the simplicity of the language).

Brazilian Portuguese (português brasileiro [poɾtuˈɡez bɾaziˈlejɾu]), also Portuguese of Brazil (português do Brasil, [poɾtuˈɡez du bɾaˈziw]) or South American Portuguese (português sul-americano) is the set of varieties of the Portuguese language native to Brazil and the most influential form of Portuguese worldwide. It is spoken by almost all of the 214 million inhabitants …