11 Facts About Nheengatu language

Nheengatu language, often written Nhengatu, is an indigenous language of the Tupi-Guarani family, being then derived from the Tupi trunk, and originated from the ancient Amazonian tupinamba, an ancient Tupi dialectal branch of the Amazon, which extended throughout the region from Maranhao.

Nheengatu language continued to evolve as it expanded into the Alto Rio Negro region.

The Nheengatu language had its first ban on the part of the Portuguese government, during the administration of the Marquis of Pombal, who intended to impose the Portuguese Nheengatu language in the Amazon and make the names of places Portuguese.

Second ban on the language came right after this revolution better known as Cabanagem or War of the Cabanos, and when the rebels were defeated, the Brazilian government imposed a harsh persecution of the speakers of Nheengatu.

The conquest of the Portuguese language was consolidated, but the nheengatu did not disappear.

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The Nheengatu language has recently regained some recognition and prominence after being suppressed for many years.

Ethnologue rates Nheengatu language as "changing" with a rating of 7 on the Gradual Intergenerational Interruption Scale.

Nheengatu developed from the extinct Tupinamba language and belongs to the Tupi-Guarani branch of the Tupi language family.

Nheengatu language studied the rise of number agreement in modern Nheengatu, by analyzing how grammaticalization occurred over the course of its evolution from Tupinamba.

Nheengatu language follows the same pattern as Tupinamba, in that the same set of personal pronouns is adopted for the subject and object of a verb.

Verbs in Nheengatu language fall into three mutually exclusive categories: intransitive, transitive and stative.