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‖ lingoa geral|lɪŋˈgəʊə dʒəˈrɑːl|
Also lingua geral.
[Pg., ad. lingua geral, lit. ‘general language’.]
A trade language based on Tupi and used as a lingua franca in Brazil.
1856[see jupati]. 1860Mayne Reid Odd People 46 We shall use that [name] by which it is known in the ‘Lingoa geral’, and call it a malocca. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 235/1 Most of the semi-civilized Indians of Brazil..speak the Lingoa-Geral, a language adapted by the Jesuit missionaries from the original idiom of the Tupinambaras. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. 431 The whole of Brazil that came into contact with the whites eventually became bilingual, knowing their own dialect and the Guarani lingoa geral. 1948C. Nimuendajú in J. H. Steward Handbk. S. Amer. Indians III. 257 After their pacification, the Mura began to adopt the Lingua Geral... Later they substituted Portuguese for the Lingua Geral. Ibid. 311 Tapanyuna is not an Apiacá word, but a Lingua Geral term which means ‘negro’. 1973E. Brooks et al. Tribes of Amazon Basin in Brazil 1972 ii. 58 Tukano is still spoken widely among Indians of Santa Isabel..and many still speak lingua geral, the Jesuit's blend of Tupi and Guarani. |