Faster access than browser!
35 relations: Alveolar consonant, Amazon basin, Amazonas (Brazilian state), Approximant consonant, Back vowel, Baniwa, Bilabial consonant, Brazil, Cabeça do Cachorro, Close vowel, Close-mid vowel, Colombia, Fricative consonant, Glottalic consonant, Indigenous languages of the Americas, José de Anchieta, Latin script, Língua Geral, Mid vowel, Nasal consonant, Open vowel, Palatal consonant, Paraguay, Portuguese language, Postalveolar consonant, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Stop consonant, The New York Times, Trill consonant, Tupi language, Tupian languages, Tupi–Guarani languages, University of São Paulo, Velar consonant, Venezuela.
Alveolar consonant
Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the alveoli (the sockets) of the superior teeth.
New!!: Nheengatu and Alveolar consonant · See more »
Amazon basin
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries.
New!!: Nheengatu and Amazon basin · See more »
Amazonas (Brazilian state)
Amazonas is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country.
New!!: Nheengatu and Amazonas (Brazilian state) · See more »
Approximant consonant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
New!!: Nheengatu and Approximant consonant · See more »
Back vowel
A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.
New!!: Nheengatu and Back vowel · See more »
Baniwa
Baniwa (also known with local variants as Baniva, Baniua, Curipaco, Vaniva, Walimanai, Wakuenai) are South American Indians, who speak the Baniwa language belonging to the Maipurean (Arawak) language family.
New!!: Nheengatu and Baniwa · See more »
Bilabial consonant
In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a consonant articulated with both lips.
New!!: Nheengatu and Bilabial consonant · See more »
Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
New!!: Nheengatu and Brazil · See more »
Cabeça do Cachorro
The region known as Cabeça do Cachorro (Dog‘s head) is the area comprising the northwesternmost end of the state of Amazonas, Brazil, bordering on Colombia and Venezuela.
New!!: Nheengatu and Cabeça do Cachorro · See more »
Close vowel
A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in American terminology), is any in a class of vowel sound used in many spoken languages.
New!!: Nheengatu and Close vowel · See more »
Close-mid vowel
A close-mid vowel (also mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel or half-close vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
New!!: Nheengatu and Close-mid vowel · See more »
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign state largely situated in the northwest of South America, with territories in Central America.
New!!: Nheengatu and Colombia · See more »
Fricative consonant
Fricatives are consonants produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
New!!: Nheengatu and Fricative consonant · See more »
Glottalic consonant
A glottalic consonant is a consonant produced with some important contribution (a movement, a closure) of the glottis (the opening that leads from the nose and mouth cavities into the larynx and the lungs).
New!!: Nheengatu and Glottalic consonant · See more »
Indigenous languages of the Americas
Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses that constitute the Americas.
New!!: Nheengatu and Indigenous languages of the Americas · See more »
José de Anchieta
José de Anchieta y Díaz de Clavijo, S.J. (19 March 1534 – 9 June 1597) was a Spanish Jesuit missionary to the Portuguese colony of Brazil in the second half of the 16th century.
New!!: Nheengatu and José de Anchieta · See more »
Latin script
Latin or Roman script is a set of graphic signs (script) based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, which is derived from a form of the Cumaean Greek version of the Greek alphabet, used by the Etruscans.
New!!: Nheengatu and Latin script · See more »
Língua Geral
Língua Geral (General Language) is the name of two distinct lingua francas, spoken in Brazil: the Língua Geral Paulista (tupi austral, or Southern Tupi), which was spoken in the region of São Paulo but is now extinct, and the língua geral amazônica (tupinambá) of the Amazon whose modern descendant is Nheengatu.
New!!: Nheengatu and Língua Geral · See more »
Mid vowel
A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.
New!!: Nheengatu and Mid vowel · See more »
Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive, nasal stop in contrast with a nasal fricative, or nasal continuant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
New!!: Nheengatu and Nasal consonant · See more »
Open vowel
An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
New!!: Nheengatu and Open vowel · See more »
Palatal consonant
Palatal consonants are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).
New!!: Nheengatu and Palatal consonant · See more »
Paraguay
Paraguay (Paraguái), officially the Republic of Paraguay (República del Paraguay; Tetã Paraguái), is a landlocked country in central South America, bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest.
New!!: Nheengatu and Paraguay · See more »
Portuguese language
Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.
New!!: Nheengatu and Portuguese language · See more »
Postalveolar consonant
Postalveolar consonants (sometimes spelled post-alveolar) are consonants articulated with the tongue near or touching the back of the alveolar ridge, farther back in the mouth than the alveolar consonants, which are at the ridge itself but not as far back as the hard palate, the place of articulation for palatal consonants.
New!!: Nheengatu and Postalveolar consonant · See more »
São Gabriel da Cachoeira
São Gabriel da Cachoeira (Saint Gabriel of the Waterfall) is a municipality located on the northern shore of the Rio Negro River, in the region of Cabeça do Cachorro, Amazonas state, Brazil.
New!!: Nheengatu and São Gabriel da Cachoeira · See more »
Stop consonant
In phonetics, a stop, also known as a plosive or oral occlusive, is a consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
New!!: Nheengatu and Stop consonant · See more »
The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
New!!: Nheengatu and The New York Times · See more »
Trill consonant
In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.
New!!: Nheengatu and Trill consonant · See more »
Tupi language
Old Tupi or classical Tupi is an extinct Tupian language which was spoken by the native Tupi people of Brazil, mostly those who inhabited coastal regions in South and Southeast Brazil.
New!!: Nheengatu and Tupi language · See more »
Tupian languages
The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America, of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani.
New!!: Nheengatu and Tupian languages · See more »
Tupi–Guarani languages
Tupi–Guarani is the name of the most widely distributed subfamily of the Tupian languages of South America.
New!!: Nheengatu and Tupi–Guarani languages · See more »
University of São Paulo
No description.
New!!: Nheengatu and University of São Paulo · See more »
Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (known also as the velum).
New!!: Nheengatu and Velar consonant · See more »
Venezuela
Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).
New!!: Nheengatu and Venezuela · See more »
Redirects here:
ISO 639:yrl, Língua Geral Amazônica, Língua geral amazônica, Nengatu language, Nheengatu language, Nheengatú, Nhengatu, Nhengatu language.
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nheengatu
