Lingoa Geral

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Lingoa Geral

  1. Old Tupi (Tupian language used as a lingua franca in early colonial Brasil).
    • 1912, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World‎:
      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.
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