Origin Of Indigenous Languages - Kinships Of Tup-Guaran Language Family In S. America

AncientPages.com | June 16, 2023 | Linguistic Discoveries

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -University of Tübingen computational linguist investigates kinships of the Tupí-Guaraní language family using methods from molecular biology.

A new study indicates that one of the largest of the indigenous language families in Latin America originated in the sixth century BCE in the basin of the Rio Tapajós and Rio Xingu, near the present-day city of Santarém in the Brazilian state of Pará.



Origin Of Indigenous Languages – Kinships Of Tupí-Guaraní Language Family In S. America
AncientPages.com | June 16, 2023 | Linguistic Discoveries
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Conny Waters - AncientPages.com -University of Tübingen computational linguist investigates kinships of the Tupí-Guaraní language family using methods from molecular biology.

A new study indicates that one of the largest of the indigenous language families in Latin America originated in the sixth century BCE in the basin of the Rio Tapajós and Rio Xingu, near the present-day city of Santarém in the Brazilian state of Pará.

The Tupí-Guaraní languages used in this study (in green) and the Tupían (non-TG) Awetí (in blue), and Mawé (in red), along with the distribution of the TG archaeological record (black dots). Prepared by the authors with QGIS 3 [29], based on based on public domain data and raster images from “Natural Earth”, including data from [30–32] and an unpublished database by Corrêa and Noelli. Credit: PLOS ONE (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272226

The Tupí-Guaraní languages used in this study (in green) and the Tupían (non-TG) Awetí (in blue), and Mawé (in red), along with the distribution of the TG archaeological record (black dots). Prepared by the authors with QGIS 3 [29], based on based on public domain data and raster images from “Natural Earth”, including data from [30–32] and an unpublished database by Corrêa and Noelli. Credit: PLOS ONE (2023). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272226

There are around fifty languages in the Tupí-Guaraní language family, which gave us words like “jaguar” and “piranha.”

Now, Dr. Fabrício Ferraz Gerardi from the University of Tübingen’s Institute of Linguistics and a team of international researchers have used methods developed in the field of molecular biology to compare and investigate the Tupí-Guaraní languages.

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