A social media card from Cadernos de Linguística featuring a quote from an article by Cunha and Lourenço (2020). At the top, the text reads: "Read in Cadernos de Linguística". Below it are four green buttons labeled "Toponymy", "Territorial Memory", "Urban Identity", and "Indigenous Lexicon". The main quote says: "Naming places is a political and social act: names shape identities, forge symbolic connections between people and territory, and continue to influence how we live and experience a sense of belonging in urban spaces.” At the bottom, the citation: Cunha, E. L.; Lourenço, L., 2020. There is a minimalist corner icon with radiating lines in the lower-left.

Place names often outlive the languages from which they came.

This study shows how words from Indigenous Brazilian languages still define urban neighborhoods today — quietly preserving cultural memory.

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