Tupi

A few words of Portuguese vocabulary come from the Tupi.

John didn't know Tupi is spoken in Brazil.

Many animals and trees of the Amazonian forest have Tupi names.

Pindorama, which means "land of parrots" in the Tupi language, was the first name for Brazil.

Brazil could've been a bilingual country; its official languages would've been Portuguese and Tupi.

Tupi means for Brazil what Latin and Greek mean for the Western world: it is a language that puts us in touch with our cultural and spiritual roots.

Tupi makes up a considerable part of the vocabulary of Brazilian Portuguese.