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Language code: tup

Technical information about ISO 639 language code tup

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The table below provides technical details for the Tupi languages language, designated by the tup code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

tup

Name

Tupi languages

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
ArikémJurunaMondéMundurukúPuruboráRamaramaTuparíTupi–Guarani
Related languages
GuaraniNheengatuTupinambáTeneteháraWayampi
Key facts
Classical Tupi was the basis of the 16th-century 'lingua geral' used along the Brazilian coastThe modern descendant Nheengatu is still spoken by several thousand people in the AmazonTupi languages show active–stative alignment in their verbal morphologyWords of Tupi origin such as 'jaguar', 'piranha' and 'tapioca' have entered many world languagesMany Tupi languages are critically endangered, with only a handful of fluent speakers each.
Sample phrase

Maitei, mba'éichapa reiko?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

Supported in Localizely

The Tupi languages language, identified by the code tup, falls under the 'Collective' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Genetic' by its type.

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