That's a really good idea, my friend and brother.

Now I feel like learning Old Tupi... I know a few words, though. :-)
http://tatoeba.org/eng/tags/sho...h_tag/Old_Tupi

Wow!!! :-D I too would be glad to learn this great language!!! Many of the names of animals and plants of the tropical Americas come from the Tupi-Guarani group of languages :-) However, we also need some audio :-) The diacritics in the Tupi phrases are a bit scary :-DDD

I agree. I have a very good book:
http://archive.org/stream/barbo...ge/n3/mode/2up

It's the only complete course I could find. There are many tips on pronunciation (it's an extinct language).

By the way, you're doing a very good job with Amazigh... I wish we could do the same with all the other (African) languages... and they are so many!

Thank you very much for the link. I knew it was an extinct language (I was going to ask you why "Old" Tupi :-)) ... Is there any effort for its revival in Brazil?

Thanks Alex. I wish we could do this with all the endangered languages of the world :-) There are some African students here, in Algeria. I'll try to find some of them and encourage them to contribute to Tatoeba.

> Is there any effort for its revival in Brazil?
I don't think so... Old Tupi is a good source for studentes, but I wouldn't say that there's an effort for its revival. Very few people speak a language called "Nheengatu" or "Modern Tupi" (5,000 to 10,000 people, maybe) in northern Brazil... It's quite similar to Guarani spoken in Paraguay.

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Thank you very much for these information. Boa noite meu irmão :-)
Tanemmirt s tussda ɣef telɣa-a. Ḍḍes deg talwit a gma :-)

Boa noite! :-)
Bons sonhos!