Língua Geral

Língua Geral, or General Language, was the common language of current Brazil until the gold rush in Minas dos Matos Gerais in the vice-kingdom of Brazil in the South, and later until the expulsion of the Jesuits by the Marquês de Pombal in the North.

An unified Tupí-Guaraní influenced by the Jesuits' Latin and the Portuguese of the settlers, it is still spoken by a few isolated river villages in the North.






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