Eduardo de Almeida Navarro

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, also known as Eduardo Navarro, is a Brazilian philologist and lexicographer.

Career

Navarro studied geography at São Paulo State University and afterwards letters at the University of São Paulo.

He is titular professor at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Science of the University of São Paulo and specializes in Old Tupi and indigenous education.

In 1998 he founded the organization Tupi Aqui ("Tupi Here") dedicated to promoting the teaching of historic Tupi and Nheengatu in high schools in São Paulo and elsewhere in Brazil.[1][2]

Works
  • Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (1998). Método moderno de tupi antigo : a língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos. Petrópolis: Editora Vozes. ISBN 85-326-1953-3. OCLC 40480983.
  • Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013). Dicionário de Tupi Antigoː a Língua Indígena Clássica do Brasil. São Paulo: Global. p. 544.

Awards
  • 2000 — Brasil 500 Anos medal, awarded by the Instituto Genealógico Brasileiro e Academia Paulista de Letras[3]
  • 2013 — "Los Destacados de ALIJA", awarded by the Asociación de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil Argentina, for Cabeza hueca, cabeza seca (translation)[4]

References
  1. Alves. "Ñe'éngatu" in guaraní means "to speak a lot" or someone who speaks too much. .Jr, Ozias (2010). Parlons Nheengatu: Une langue tupi du Brésil. Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-296-13259-7.
  2. "Cursos de Tupi Antigo e Lingua Geral". Retrieved 5 December 2013.
  3. "Prêmios e títulos". Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas Departamento de Letras Clássicas e Vernáculas. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  4. Mónica Klibanski (29 April 2014). "Los mejores libros para niños y jóvenes del año 2013" (in Spanish). educ.ar. Archived from the original on 8 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.


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