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Tupí-Guaraní. Kamaiurá (600 speakers) Nuclear Tupí-Guaraní. Northern. Guajá (280 speakers) Ka'ápor (800 speakers) Avá-Canoeiro (14 speakers) Central. Anambé, Araweté (Anambé 6 speakers, Araweté 280 speakers) Xingú Asurini (120 speakers) Tocantins Asuriní, Parakanã (700-1,500 speakers) Tapirapé (560 speakers) Peripheral
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.
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 ...
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.
The Guarani languages are: Guarani dialect chain: Western Bolivian Guarani (Simba), Eastern Bolivian Guarani (Chawuncu; Ava, Tapieté dialects), Paraguayan Guaraní (Guarani), Correntine Guarani (Taragui), Chiripá Guaraní (Nhandéva, Avá), Mbyá Guaraní (Mbya) [1] Kaiwá (Paí Tavyterá dialect) Aché (Guayaki) (several dialects)? Xetá
The Guaraní language is a subgroup within the Tupí-Guaraní branch. [1] There are three dialects within the Guaraní subgroup: Mbyá, Kaiowá and Ñandeva. [ 7 ] The differences among the three dialects of the Guaraní language can be noted primarily in their distinct phonologies and syntax , as these vary depending on the social context that ...
Guarani is co-official with Spanish in Paraguay, [3] and most Paraguayans speak both languages. [4] Guaraní is the home language of more than half the population of Paraguay, with higher proportions of its use in rural areas, and those who speak Spanish at home slightly in the majority in the cities. [ 5 ]
Classical Guarani, also known as Missionary Guarani or Old Guarani (abá ñeȇ́ lit. 'the people's language') is an extinct variant of the Guarani language. It was spoken in the region of the thirty Jesuit missions among the Guarani (current territories of Paraguay , Argentina and Brazil ).