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Terena|tɛˈreɪnə|
Also Ter(r)eno.
(A member of) an Arawak group of South American Indians of the southern Mato Grosso in Brazil; the language of this group. Also attrib.
1891D. G. Brinton American Race 244 The Terenos..are members of the Guaycuru stock of the Chaco. 1928A. R. Hay Indians of S. Amer. & Gospel vi. 101 In the Terena tribe we have a typical group of forest Indians who are fast adopting civilized ways. 1932P. Radin Indians of S. Amer. xi. 204 No evidence exists for its presence [sc. class division] in any other of the continental Arawak tribes except the Terreno. 1946Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics XII. 60/1 The basic unit of structure in Terena phonology is the syllable. 1952E. Fischer-Jørgensen in E. Hamp et al. Readings in Linguistics II (1966) 315 It is not at all rare to find particularly nasals entering into the category of phonemes never adjoining the vowel in clusters..; this is the case e.g. in Terena. 1960Word XVI. 349 A phonemic analysis of Tereno establishes as full phonemes a bilabial nasal and an alveolar nasal. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVII. 125/1 The Terena..work on cattle breeding farms. |