Tupi people
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The Tupi people, a subdivision of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families, were one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil before its colonization. Scholars believe that while they first settled in the Amazon rainforest, from about 2,900 years ago the Tupi started to migrate southward and gradually occupied the Atlantic coast of Southeast Brazil.[1]
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Quick Facts Total population, Regions with significant populations ...
Total population | |
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1,000,000 (historically), Potiguara 10,837, Tupinambá de Olivença 3,000, Tupiniquim 2,630, others extinct as tribes but blood ancestors to Pardo Brazilian population | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Central and Coastal Brazil | |
Languages | |
Tupi languages, later língua geral, much later Portuguese | |
Religion | |
Indigenous, later Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Guaraní tribes |
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Many Tupi people today are merged with the Guaraní people, forming the Tupi–Guarani languages. Guarani languages are linguistically different from the Tupian languages.[2]