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Lingoa Geral en · PROPN

Etymology

From Portuguese língua geral (“literally, general language”).

Meanings

  1. Old Tupi (Tupian language used as a lingua franca in early colonial Brasil).
    • One useful result of his former experiences was that he could talk fluently in the Lingoa Geral, which is the peculiar talk, one-third Portuguese and two-thirds Indian, which is current all over Brazil. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC: