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PRONUNCIATION OF MANJACO IN PORTUGUESE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MANJACO

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Manjaco can act as a noun and an adjective.
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WHAT DOES MANJACO MEAN IN PORTUGUESE?

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Manjacos

Manjacos

The manjacos are a town that inhabits the islands of Pecixe and Jata and the banks of the rivers Cacheu and Geba, in Guinea-Bissau. The name of the people means "I tell you". The Manjaca language is classified as part of the Senegal-Guinea languages, which are a subdivision of the Atlantic languages. There are large communities of manjacos in Senegal, France, Gambia and the surrounding countries of Guinea-Bissau. Os manjacos são um povo que habita as ilhas de Pecixe e Jata e as margens dos rios Cacheu e Geba, na Guiné-Bissau. O nome do povo significa "eu digo-te". A língua manjaca está classificada como parte das línguas Senegal-Guiné, que são uma subdivisão das línguas atlânticas. Existem grandes comunidades de manjacos no Senegal, França, Gâmbia e nos países envolventes da Guiné-Bissau.

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PORTUGUESE WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MANJACO


Mónaco
Mónaco
anaco
a·na·co
buraco
bu·ra·co
caco
ca·co
cardíaco
car·dí·a·co
chaco
cha·co
daco
da·co
flaco
fla·co
fraco
fra·co
jaco
ja·co
macaco
ma·ca·co
naco
na·co
opaco
o·pa·co
paco
pa·co
polaco
po·la·co
saco
sa·co
sanjaco
san·ja·co
tabaco
ta·ba·co
taco
ta·co
zodíaco
zo·dí·a·co

PORTUGUESE WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MANJACO

manja
manja-léguas
manjado
manjadoira
manjadoura
manjaleco
manjaléu
manjangome
manjar
manjar-branco
manjar-dos-anjos
manjar-grude
manjar-imperial
manjar-principal
manjar-real
manjarra
manjata
manjável
manjedoira
manjedoura

PORTUGUESE WORDS THAT END LIKE MANJACO

Baco
afrodisíaco
austríaco
balacobaco
barraco
caraco
casaco
cavaco
demoníaco
eslovaco
faco
fármaco
maco
malaco
maníaco
paradisíaco
puxa-saco
sovaco
zaco
ábaco

Synonyms and antonyms of manjaco in the Portuguese dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «manjaco» into 25 languages

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Translator Portuguese - Chinese

manjaco
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Spanish

Manjaco
570 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - English

Manjaco
510 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Hindi

Manjaco
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator Portuguese - Arabic

manjaco
280 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Russian

manjaco
278 millions of speakers

Portuguese

manjaco
270 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Bengali

manjaco
260 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - French

Manjaco
220 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Malay

manjaco
190 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - German

manjaco
180 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Japanese

manjaco
130 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Korean

manjaco
85 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Javanese

manjaco
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator Portuguese - Vietnamese

manjaco
80 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Tamil

manjaco
75 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Marathi

manjaco
75 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Turkish

manjaco
70 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Italian

manjaco
65 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Polish

manjaco
50 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Ukrainian

manjaco
40 millions of speakers

Translator Portuguese - Romanian

manjaco
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator Portuguese - Greek

Manjaco
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator Portuguese - Afrikaans

manjaco
14 millions of speakers
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Translator Portuguese - Swedish

manjaco
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator Portuguese - Norwegian

manjaco
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of manjaco

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MANJACO»

The term «manjaco» is regularly used and occupies the 66.844 position in our list of most widely used terms in the Portuguese dictionary.
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Examples of use in the Portuguese literature, quotes and news about manjaco

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10 PORTUGUESE BOOKS RELATING TO «MANJACO»

Discover the use of manjaco in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to manjaco and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Portuguese literature.
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Anthropology and Egalitarianism: Ethnographic Encounters ...
Meanwhile, further up river in Sedhiou, the sergeant of the garrison of native troops was a Manjaco. In 1849, characterizing the “rivers of Guinea” as a whole, the intrepid trader and amateur geographer Bertrand-Bocande noted that Manjaco ...
Eric Gable, 2010
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Images and Empires: Visuality in Colonial and Postcolonial ...
the Manjaco were perhaps both the most studied and the least subordinated of Guinea's subjects.3 They were considered to be the most politically stratified and centralized of coastal wet-rice farming "animists" (as opposed to the Muslim Fula  ...
Paul Stuart Landau, Deborah D. Kaspin, 2002
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Armazenamento Tradicional na Guiné-Bissau.
BRITO, E. - A poligamia e a natalidade entre os grupos étnicos Manjaco, Balanta e Brame. (Seu paralelo com os dados apurados pelo coronel-médico Jamot relativamente ao povo Mossi), B.C.G.P., Bissau, vol.7, n° 25, pp. 161-179, 1952.
Oliveira, Havik, Schiefer
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Shrines of the Slave Trade : Diola Religion and Society in ...
In this groundbreaking work, Robert Baum seeks to reconstruct the religious and social history of the Diola communities in southern Senegal during the precolonial era, when the Atlantic slave trade was at its height.
Robert M. Baum Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Iowa State University, 1999
5
Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora
Lauer depicted Manjaco rice fields as poorer in quality than rice fields found further north among the Floup—what Portuguese traders such as André Alvares de Álmada called the Jola, whose villages stretch along the mouth of the Casamance ...
Edda L. Fields-Black, 2008
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"A Contested Sight/site": British Constructions of Ceylon in ...
and the Portuguese colonials "copied each other's bodies to visualize themselves" (294) juxtaposes the actions of Miereles, the Portuguese colonial administrator who recorded the torso scarring of Manjaco women of Guinea- Bissau as ...
Kanchanakesi Channa Prajapati Warnapala, 2008
7
Boletim cultural da Guiné Portuguesa
Prosseguindo no programa de promoção social, económico e cultural do «chão manjaco>, têm vindo a processar-se inúmeras inaugurações em terras de Cacheu. Em Bassarel, o Governador da Província, presidiu aos actos inaugurativos de ...
8
Tired of Weeping: Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in ...
According to Eric Gable (1995:244–45), his Manjaco interlocutors emphasize their own role as agents and enforcers of spirits. Nonetheless, the spirits could be tricky, unpredictable, and even evil. Gable (1997) describes how a Manjaco ...
Jonina Einarsdottir, 2005
9
Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
“Récrit de migration entre les Nalou de Cubucaré.” In Migrations anciènnes et peuplement actuel des côtes guinéennes. Edited by Gérald Gaillard, 403–12. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2000. Gable, Eric. “Appropriate Bodies: Portuguese and Manjaco ...
Peter Karibe Mendy, Lobban Jr., 2013
10
Dicionário de percussão
"Tambor" usado em funerais e para mensagem de sinais usado pela tribo ' Manjaco', sem maiores referências (Africa). bomba m Idiof. perc. - "Tambor de madeira" (1) feito de cilindro de bambu (Bambusa vul- garis) com cerca de 17" de ...
Mário D. Frungillo, 2003

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MANJACO»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term manjaco is used in the context of the following news items.
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O depósito da História
Ao rumar a norte para Cacheu chegamos a chão manjaco - onde os portugueses aportaram pela primeira vez, em 1446. Na fortaleza, ou melhor, no fortim ... «Expresso, Sep 15»
2
Ser mulher é difícil mas também é bom
Sou a presidente da Associação Dja Guimabilar [ “nós fazemos” em manjaco, uma das mais de 30 línguas faladas na Guiné-Bissau]. Somos nove mulheres e ... «Público.pt, Jul 15»
3
Radios comunitarias y procesos de re-creación de la ciudadanía …
... nacionales predominantes (balanta, fula, mandinga, manjaco y papel) y permite la participación de la comunidad y de los decisores locales y tradicionales. «Rebelión, Sep 14»
4
Map of human genetic history: An ancient mystery answered, maybe
... Fulani, Yoruba of Nigeria; Cabinda of Angola; Papel, Manjaco, Djola, Felupes of Guniea-Bisseau; Wolof of Senegal, or the East African Kikuyu of Kenya; Yao, ... «Tech Times, Feb 14»
5
Cabral at 90: Unity and struggle continue in Africa
... Manjaco, Mandinga, Baiote, Beafada, Saracole, Mancanha, Bijago, Sosso. He believed that whilst there were economic, social and cultural differences among ... «Patriotic Vanguard, Jan 14»
6
Chinese project to link Bissau by motorway to other West African …
... and Chinese technicians were now awaited to start installing the equipment on the Bijagós archipelago and the islands within the mainland, in Chão Manjaco, ... «Macauhub, Nov 12»
7
Festa da boa, é no Gamboa
Em outras palavras, que somos todos família em Cabo Verde, da peixeira ao taxista, do badiu ao sampadjudo ( etnias locais), do manjaco (nome de um tribo ... «RDB - www.ruadebaixo.com, Jun 10»
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West Africa: Hustling is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl
When Hawa uses a shorthand, "he said this and that" to describe a gossip session, I recall the same locution in the Manjaco I learned in Guinea-Bissau. «AllAfrica.com, Jan 05»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Manjaco [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-pt/manjaco>. May 2024 ».
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