• News of this people

• Jovens indígenas participam de oficina de formação política, em Brasília
  
  04/04/2013
• O Estado de Medo
  
  14/01/2013
• MPF/MG fará audiência pública sobre atendimento prestado pela Funai
  
  16/11/2012

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Tupiniquim

Name and language

The self-denomination Tupiniquim, written in the past in different forms – Topinaquis, Tupinaquis, Tupinanquins, Tupiniquins – means, according to Antenor Nascentes’ Dicionário Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa, with the support of the historian Adolfo Varnhagen, "next door Tupi, neighbor on the side", as the expression Tupin-i-ki was translated into Portuguese. Silveira Bueno’s Grande Dicionário Etimológico-Prosódico da Língua Portuguesa confirms: Tupinã-ki, "collateral tribe, the branch of the Tupi".

Former speakers of the coastal Tupi language, of the Tupi-Guarani family, today the Tupiniquim use only Portuguese.