Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Brazil , Bolivia , Paraguay , Uruguay , North-east Argentina , Southern Colombia , Northern Peru
- Linguistic classification
- Je-Tupi-Carib ? Tupian
- Proto language
- Proto-Tupian
- Subdivisions
- Tupi–Guarani Arikem Awetï Mawé Mondé Mundurukú Puruborá – Ramarama Tuparí Yurúna
- Iso 639 2 5
- tup
- Glottolog
- tupi1275
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- Indigenous languages of the Americas
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- native label
- Ñe'engatú
- topic's main category
- Category:Tupian languages
- Commons category
- Tupian languages
- Wikimedia language code
- yrl
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/yrl
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 5040000
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Encyclopedic overview
The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani.
Homeland
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tupian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.