Lingoa Geral

English

Etymology

From Portuguese língua geral (“literally, general language”).

Proper noun

Lingoa Geral

1. Old Tupi (Tupian language used as a lingua franca in early colonial Brasil).
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     One useful result of his former experiences was that he could talk fluently in the Lingoa Geral, which is the peculiar talk, one-third Portuguese and two-thirds Indian, which is current all over Brazil.