Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hipurnias

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[edit] Hipurnias

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Basically as far as I can tell there have been no references anywhere to this supposed people since the 1911 Britannica. I tried to search under similar spellings in google and came up empty-handed. I have recently been improving a lot of the articles related to indigenous people in Brazil, and this is unusual, since normally even a 100-person group will turn up some anthropological materials. I did turn up one reference in jstor to an 1895 article listing groups that said something about a "warlike and formidable" cannibal tribe called the Hipurinas (notice- not quite the same spelling). Googling hipurina reveals (thanks to Babelfish) that "hipurina" is a Tupi word for maiden, flower, or fruit. So basically I think that this was either a wrong name in 1911 (my money is here) or has since become obsolete. Mangostar (talk) 19:48, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Solved the mystery! The real name is Ipurina. The 1910 updated version of the 1895 article on the "Hipurinas" is basically the same thing verbatim as Britannica, so the "Hipurnia" in Britannica seems to have been a misspelling of that. Googling the linguist mentioned in the 1910 article reveals that he actually wrote a grammar for the "Ipurina". (Which pulls up tons of google sources.) It's just like telephone, huh? Mangostar (talk) 20:04, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

And the Ipurina are evidently better known as the Apurinã, whose language already has a WP article! Mangostar (talk) 20:07, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

*Merge and redirect to Apurinã, then? --Dhartung | Talk 21:20, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

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