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The National University of La Plata (Spanish: Universidad Nacional de La Plata, UNLP) is a national public research university located in the city of La Plata, capital of Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It has over 90,000 regular students, 10,000 teaching staff, 17 departments and 106 available degrees.
This Wikipedia was created in 2005, [1] thanks to the unusual collaboration between the Lithuanian Šarūnas Šimkus, then a teenager, and Paraguayan academic David Galeano Olivera. [2] The idea is to promote the usage and modernisation of the Guarani language. [3]
The congregation of the Guaraní into large settlements at the missions facilitated the spread of diseases. [18] Nevertheless, the missions soon had 40,000 Guaraní in residence. [19] Tens of thousands of Guaraní living in the same region remained outside the missions, living in their traditional manner and practicing their traditional religion.
A Guarani speaker. Books in Guarani. Guarani (/ ˌ ɡ w ɑːr ə ˈ n iː, ˈ ɡ w ɑːr ən i / GWAR-ə-NEE, GWAR-ə-nee), [3] specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (avañeʼẽ [ʔãʋãɲẽˈʔẽ] "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch [4] of the Tupian language family.
Efforts by the Spanish army in 1754 to forcefully remove the Guaraní from the missions failed. On 10 February 1756, a combined force of 3,000 Spanish and Portuguese soldiers fought the Guaraní at the battle of Caiboaté. [2] It resulted in the death of 1,511 Guaraní, while the Europeans suffered only 4 deaths.
Guaraní people, an indigenous people from South America's interior (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia) Guarani language, or Paraguayan Guarani, an official language of Paraguay; Guarani dialects, spoken in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay; Guarani languages, a group of languages, including Guarani, in the Tupí-Guaraní language ...
The Guarani are a group of culturally-related indigenous peoples of South America.They are distinguished from the related Tupi by their use of the Guarani language.The traditional range of the Guarani people is in what is now Paraguay between the Paraná River and lower Paraguay River, the Misiones Province of Argentina, southern Brazil once as far east as Rio de Janeiro, and parts of Uruguay ...
The first written texts in Guaraní were produced by Jesuit missionaries, using the Latin script. The priest Antonio Ruíz de Montoya documented the language in his works Tesoro de la lengua guaraní (a Guarani-Spanish dictionary , printed in 1639) and Arte y bocabvlario de la lengua guaraní (a grammar compendium and dictionary, printed in ...