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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Kaingang¹

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

Example Sentences

Cimi also reported cases of murders carried out with extreme cruelty and brutality, such as those of Raissa Cabreira Guarani Kaiowá, aged 11, and Daiane Griá Sales, 14, from the Kaingang people.

From Reuters

The company last year introduced phone interfaces serving the Kaingang community of southern Brazil, and the Nheengatu community of the Amazonian regions of Brazil and neighboring countries.

From Seattle Times

Federal police said they are investigating the fatal shooting of two members of the Kaingang tribe on Saturday during a wave of violence fueled by dissent in the community over distributing the farming income.

From Reuters

In a public letter last month, a group of Kaingang elders accused the tribe’s chief, Marciano Inacio Claudino, of hoarding proceeds from the three 60kg bags of soybeans per hectare that commercial farmers are paying for leased land.

From Reuters

Human rights groups and members of the Kaingang community say the murders are related to an arrangement to grow cash crops on the Serrinha reservation, a 12,000-hectare area in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.

From Reuters