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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 ...
Several workshops on Guarani Wikipedia have been carried out throughout Paraguay, jointly organized by Wikimedia Argentina and Fundación Paraguay Educa (an institution working on the OLPC project). [5] The University of Leipzig has elaborated a corpus based on Guarani Wikipedia. [6]
He is also a Grammar, Literature, Didactics and Culture professor at the lyceum. Dr. Olivera is an activist for the propagation of the Guarani language and culture, and he organizes various cultural events, conferences, seminars, and forums about Guarani in Paraguay. He is a member of various government and UN commissions on Paraguayan culture.
The Guarani-Kaiowá are also known as the Kaiwá, Caingua, Caiua, Caiwa, Cayua, Kaiova, and Kayova. [1] These spellings were largely devised by Europeans, The National Museum of Brazil (Portuguese: Museu Nacional) keeps records of the earliest Latinized forms for transcribing the name on behalf of the people, coincidentally Kaiowá means exactly this 'the people' - in their own language.
Paraguay was in its maximum extension the old Paraguayan Province, a Jesuit administration belonging to the Viceroyalty of Peru and whose clerical capital was the city of Córdoba. During the 17th and 18th centuries, 30 reductions were built in this province, which are currently distributed in three countries: 8 in Paraguay , 15 in Argentina ...
The Guarani name for the alphabet, achegety, is a neologism formed from a-che-ge (the names of the first three letters) and ty meaning "grouping", "ensemble". Toponyms and proper names [ edit ]
The Academy of the Guarani Language (Guarani: Guarani Ñe’ẽ Rerekuapavẽ, Spanish: Academia de la Lengua Guaraní) is a Paraguayan institution that promotes and regulates the Guarani language, one of the official languages of Paraguay and the Mercosur.
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.