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Lengua|ˈlɛŋgwə|
[f. Sp. lengua tongue (see quot. 19041).]
a. A member of a South American Indian people inhabiting the Paraguayan Gran Chaco area; also attrib. or as adj.
b. The language of this people.
1822S. Coleridge tr. Dobrizhoffer's Acct. Abipones I. 125 The equestrian nations remaining in Chaco, and still formidable to the Spaniards, are the Abipones,..and Oekakakalots, Guaycurus, or Lenguas. 1904W. B. Grubb Among Indians Paraguayan Chaco vii. 57 The labret is an extension of the lower lip, which has the appearance of a protruding tongue. Hence the Spanish term Lengua was applied indiscriminately by the early colonists to any tribe who adopted this custom. Ibid. x. 94 Unless the circumstances are known, some expressions in Lengua are quite meaningless. 1908Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 8/2 During the past year sections [of the Bible] have been printed in Lengua, a language spoken by the Indians of the Paraguayan Chaco. 1911J. G. Frazer Golden Bough: Taboo (ed. 3) ii. 38 The Lengua Indians of the Gran Chaco hold that the vagrant spirits of the dead may come to life again. 1950J. G. Kerr Naturalist in Gran Chaco ix. 175 The main work of the Mission was..among a set of Lengua (i.e. Mushcui) Indians known as the Paisiapto or black-food people. 1973B. J. Susnik in J. R. Gorham Paraguay: Ecological Ess. 121 (table) Lengua... Since 1850, contacts (bartering) with Spanish Americans. |