Langenesis

Tupian family

Old Tupi

c. 1000 CE – 1800 CE Classical

Old Tupi (c. 1000 CE – 1800 CE) is a classical Tupian language. It has 1 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Tupian → Proto-Tupi-Guarani → Old Tupi.

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ISO 639-3
tpn

Tupinambá, the coastal language of 16th-century Brazil. Jesuits (Anchieta's grammar, 1595) documented it and used it as a língua geral; it has a literary and toponymic afterlife.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Tupianc. 3,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE
  2. Proto-Tupi-Guaranic. 500 BCE – 500 CE
  3. Old Tupic. 1000 CE – 1800 CE

Descendants 1

Sister languages 1

Also descended from Proto-Tupi-Guarani.

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