Lengua

[ leng-gwuh ]

/ ˈlɛŋ gwə /

a member of a group of Indian peoples living in the Gran Chaco area of Paraguay.

any of several languages spoken by these peoples.

Origin of Lengua

1820–25; < Spanish; literally, tongue, referring to their custom of wearing labrets

Cartilla en Lengua Maya para la enseanza de los nios indigenes.
Notes on the Bibliography of Yucatan and Central America|Adolph Francis Bandelier
Los nombres de los cinco eran Chachalmeca, que en nuestra Lengua quiere tanto decir como Levita ministro de cosa divina sagrada.
The Medicine-Men of the Apache. (1892 N 09 / 1887-1888 (pages 443-604))|John G. Bourke
The best known of them are the henequin, lanseveria, and lengua de vaca.
Industrial Cuba|Robert P. Porter
There is reason, however, to suppose one of them was the Tupi or lengua geral, of Brazil.
The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations|Daniel G. Brinton