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TUPI-GUARANI LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of South American Indian languages
Synonyms:
Tupi-Guarani; Tupi-Guarani language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Tupi-Guarani language" is a kind of...):
American-Indian language; American Indian; Amerind; Amerindian language; Indian (any of the languages spoken by Amerindians)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Tupi-Guarani language"):
Guarani (the language spoken by the Guarani of Paraguay and Bolivia)
Tupi (the language spoken by the Tupi of Brazil and Paraguay)