• Guanche is an extinct language or dialect continuum that was spoken by the Guanches of the Canary Islands until the 16th or 17th century. It died out...
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    islanders spoke the Guanche language, which is believed to have been related to the Berber languages of mainland North Africa; the language became extinct...
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  • Guanche may refer to: Guanches, the indigenous people of the Canary Islands Guanche language, an extinct language, spoken by the Guanches until the 16th...
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    Afro-Asiatic languages. Additionally, historical linguistics indicate that the Guanche language, which was spoken on the Canary Islands by the ancient Guanches, likely...
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    Africa and dating from the 2nd century BCE onward. The second is the Guanche language, which was formerly spoken on the Canary Islands and went extinct in...
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    Tenerife (category Articles containing Guanche-language text)
    The island's indigenous people, the Guanche Berbers, referred to the island as Achinet or Chenet in their language (variant spellings are found in the...
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    influence from the Guanche language, especially in the toponymy. In addition, many Canarian personal names come from the Guanche language, such as Gara, Acerina...
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    Lanzarote (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    which the modern name is derived. The island's name in the native Guanche language was Tyterogaka or Tytheroygaka, which may mean "one that is all ochre"...
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    language Celtic languages Celtiberian language Gallaecian language Lusitanian language Punic language Latin language Guanche language Galician-Portuguese...
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    The Church of the Guanche People (Spanish: Iglesia del Pueblo Guanche) is a religious organisation, founded in 2001 in the city of San Cristóbal de La...
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    Guanche mummies (Canarian Spanish: xaxos, formerly ['ʃaʃos]; mirlados, "embalmed ones"; enzurronados, "leather-bagged ones") are the intentionally desiccated...
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    Dácil (category Guanche)
    Princess Dácil was a Guanche princess of the kingdom of Taoro on the island of Tenerife (in the Canary Islands), best known for her marriage to a conqueror...
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    restaurant, gardens, emerald-green pool, museum and auditorium. The Guanche language word jameo refers to a large opening in a lava tube, which is formed...
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    Sahara (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
    widely spoken languages in the Sahara. Arabic, Berber and its variants now regrouped under the term Amazigh (which includes the Guanche language spoken by...
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  • Berber Guanche language to extinction. Earlier, in 1341, the Genovese explorer Nicoloso da Recco encountered and partially documented the language, which...
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    Berbers (category Articles containing Arabic-language text)
    Guanche language. Most Berber languages have a high percentage of borrowing and influence from the Arabic language, as well as from other languages....
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    Intangible Heritage of Humanity. Little is known of the original Guanche language or the languages of the Canary Islands, but it is assumed that their phonological...
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  • program of the Government of Australia Greencore, an Irish food company Guanche language Guidance, navigation, and control, in aeronautics A cocaine hapten...
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    Caldera de Taburiente National Park (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    in Spanish. Taburiente is not a Spanish word but derives from the Guanche language and means "plain, level". The Caldera de Taburiente is a topographic...
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    Canary Islanders (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    century. In 1402, they began to subdue and suppress the native Guanche population. The Guanches were initially enslaved [citation needed] and gradually absorbed...
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    Reggio, Louisiana (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    It is perhaps the only community in the United States that bears a Guanche-language name. After the American Civil War, the community greatly expanded...
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    El Hierro (category CS1 Spanish-language sources (es))
    known. It is thought to be derived from one of several words in the Guanche language of the pre-Hispanic inhabitants, known as Bimbaches. Juan de Abreu...
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  • Achuhucanac (category Guanche gods)
    rain god in Guanche religion in Tenerife, identified with the Supreme God (Achamán). Its name comes from: ašu_hu_kanak Guanche language that means "that...
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    Museo Guanche is an ethnographic museum in Icod de los Vinos, Tenerife. It is focused on the Guanches, the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands. It...
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    Islands. Though speculative, Guanche speakers may have spoken the Basque language, Tartessian language, and other similar languages of the Iberian Peninsula;...
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    Chaxiraxi (category Guanche goddesses)
    religion of the aboriginal Guanche inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Chaxiraxi was one of the principal goddesses of the Guanche pantheon. She was associated...
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    Roque Bentayga (category Articles containing Guanche-language text)
    according to his purpose of dealing with what of the Guanche cosmology was reflected in their language and in the toponymy that has survived, interprets...
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    Virgin of Candelaria (category CS1 European Spanish-language sources (es-es))
    to the Virgin Mary in the context of the original (Insular-Amazigh) Guanche language, while attempting to transcribe them into Roman letters. The first...
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    Tinguaro (category Guanche)
    Tinguaro (died December 1495, in La Laguna) was a Guanche sigoñe (transl. warrior) of Tenerife, also known as Chimechia and Achimenchia Tinguaro. Tinguaro...
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  • Atlantean (film series) (category Articles containing Spanish-language text)
    origen de los vascos y su relación con los guanches (1978) a relation among the Basque, Pictish and Guanche languages as remainders of a Western European and...
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