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单词 lengua
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Lenguan.

/ˈlɛŋɡwə/
Etymology: < Spanish lengua tongue (see quot. 1904 at sense a).
a. A member of a South American Indian people inhabiting the Paraguayan Gran Chaco area; also attributive or as adj.
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the world > people > ethnicities > Indian of Central or South America > [noun] > Indians of South America
Patagona1544
Mochica1581
Arawak1596
Arawakan1596
Tapuia1613
Quechua1688
Galibi1698
Abipon1717
Pehuenche1756
Patagonian1767
Amazonian Indian1769
Warao1769
Tehuelche1774
Abiponian1786
two-finger1796
Guarani1797
Shipibo1805
Araucanian1809
Tupinamba1810
Muisca1814
Pampas Indian1820
Guaycuru1822
Lengua1822
Fuegian1825
Wapishana1836
Wai Wai1840
Yucatec1843
Tupi1845
Tupi-Guarani1850
Amazonian1858
Aymara1860
Jivaro1862
Lokono1868
Quechuan1871
Yucatecan1871
Yunca1871
Mapuche1876
Chibcha1877
Ona1884
Yahgan1884
Terena1891
Xavante1904
urubu1948
Saramaccan1959
Yanomamö1965
Mochican1967
1822 S. Coleridge tr. Dobrizhoffer Hist. Abipones I. 125 The equestrian nations remaining in Chaco, and still formidable to the Spaniards, are the Abipones,..and Oekakakalots, Guaycurus, or Lenguas.
1904 W. B. Grubb Among Indians Paraguayan Chaco vii. 57 The labret is an extension of the lower lip, which has the appearance of a protruding tongue. Hence the Spanish term Lengua was applied indiscriminately by the early colonists to any tribe who adopted this custom.
1911 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Taboo (ed. 3) ii. 38 The Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco hold that the vagrant spirits of the dead may come to life again.
1950 J. G. Kerr Naturalist in Gran Chaco ix. 175 The main work of the Mission was..among a set of Lengua (i.e. Mushcui) Indians known as the Paisiapto or black-food people.
1973 B. J. Susnik in J. R. Gorham Paraguay: Ecological Ess. 121 (table) Lengua... Since 1850, contacts (bartering) with Spanish Americans.
b. The language of this people.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > Ge-Pano-Carib Amerindian
Pano1836
Lengua1904
Macusi1934
Island Carib1938
Xavante1950
1904 W. B. Grubb Among Indians Paraguayan Chaco x. 94 Unless the circumstances are known, some expressions in Lengua are quite meaningless.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 8/2 During the past year sections [of the Bible] have been printed in Lengua, a language spoken by the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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