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Kaingang

[ kahyn-gang ]

noun

, plural Kain·gangs, (especially collectively) Kain·gang
  1. a member of an Indigenous people of southern Brazil.
  2. a group of languages spoken by the Kaingang, constituting a branch of the Ge family of languages.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Kaingang1

First recorded in 1935–40; from Portuguese caingangue, from Kaingang Kanhgág

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