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Seeking the origin of Indigenous languages in South America
Phys dot org ^ | June 15, 2023 | University of Tubingen

Posted on 06/20/2023 9:56:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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.

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. This has shed light on how the languages are related to each other, as well as on their geographical and chronological evolution. The new study has been published in the latest edition of PLOS ONE.

Little is known about the history of the Tupí-Guaraní language family. It includes about 40 languages still spoken today, and at least another nine that have died out. The number of speakers per language ranges from less than 100, as in Amondawa and Juma, to 6 million, as in Paraguayan Guaraní. Only a few of the Tupí-Guaraní languages have been written down.

"It is mainly the extinct languages that we know from phonetic transcriptions noted down by researchers in past centuries," Fabrício Gerardi says.

(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; aweti; epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; mawe; preclovis; quechua; tupan; tupiguarani
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3 [29], based on based on public domain data and raster images from "Natural Earth", including data from [30–32] and an unpublished database by Correa and Noelli. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272226
Credit: PLOS ONE (2023)
Credit: PLOS ONE (2023)

1 posted on 06/20/2023 9:56:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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2 posted on 06/20/2023 9:57:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Where does Quechua fit into all of this?


3 posted on 06/20/2023 10:21:43 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: SunkenCiv

Well, according to the Mormons, they’re Hebrew..............


4 posted on 06/20/2023 10:35:23 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Well, that means they’re not Hebrew.


5 posted on 06/20/2023 10:48:56 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
Quechua is part of the "delirious, kaleidoscopic riot" of languages of South America (quote from John McWhorter). It's quite obvious from that alone that the Americas were not colonized in one 'land bridge' event and never before or since.

6 posted on 06/20/2023 11:00:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Bookmark


7 posted on 06/20/2023 11:13:06 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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The rest of the PreClovis keyword, sorted:

8 posted on 06/20/2023 12:02:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

A book on the Guarani language by two Jesuits was published in 1724. The Jesuits had a number of missions in the Guarani-speaking regions of South America (in present-day Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil).


9 posted on 06/20/2023 1:21:22 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

Thx VR.


10 posted on 06/20/2023 1:58:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The Wikipedia article “Jesuit missions among the Guarani” shows the title page of the 1724 book, along with photos of some of the Jesuit mission churches (or church ruins).


11 posted on 06/20/2023 2:17:50 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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