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See also:TUPIS (Comrades) , a tribe and stock of See also:South See also:American See also:Indians of See also:Brazil . They See also:call all other peoples Tapuyas (foreigners) . Their See also:original See also:home is believed to have been on the See also:Amazon, and from its mouth they spread far southwards along the Brazilian See also:coast . When hard pressed by the Portuguese they retreated to the See also:Andes . See also:Martius gives the Tupi nation a wide range, from the See also:Atlantic to the Andes, and from See also:Paraguay to the Amazon . Of this stock are the See also:Omaguas, Cocomas and other Peruvian tribes . Latham makes the See also:Tupis members of the Guarani stock . The " Lingoa Geral " or See also:trade See also:language between Portuguese and Amazon Indians is a corruption of the Tupi See also:tongue . |
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