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The Guarani languages are a group of half a dozen or so languages in the Tupi–Guarani language family. The best known language in this family is Guarani , one of the national languages of Paraguay , alongside Spanish.
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 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 ...
I a-ĩ-a A1SG -be- NMLZ peve until xivi puma o-vaẽ A3 -arrive Xee a-ĩ-a peve xivi o-vaẽ I A1SG-be-NMLZ until puma A3-arrive "The puma came as far as where I was staying" (as cited in Estigarribia & Pinta, pg. 241) Unknown glossing abbreviation(s) (help); Example 2 Ndee You re-ke-a A2SG -sleep- NMLZ ja while a-mba’eapo A1SG -work Ndee re-ke-a ja a-mba’eapo You A2SG-sleep-NMLZ while ...
Ethnic groups of Bolivia (2006). The Guarani (Chiriguanos) occupied a larger area in the 16th through 19th century. The common name for the Eastern Bolivian Guaraní since the 16th century has been variations of the name "Chirihuano", a word of Quechua origin which referred to itinerant doctors or medicine vendors from the Bolivian province of Larecaja, called also Collahuayas, Yungeños and ...
It has a 75 percent lexical similarity with Paraguayan Guarani. In 2012, some 3,900 speakers were counted in the Misiones Province. [20] Eastern Bolivian Guarani is also from the Tupi-Guarani family, subgroup I. Some 15,000 speakers in the provinces of Salta and Formosa. Correntino Guarani or Argentine Guarani pertains to the Tupi-Guarani ...
Guarani dialects, spoken in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay Guarani languages , a group of languages, including Guarani, in the Tupí-Guaraní language subfamily Eastern Bolivian Guarani , historically called Chiriguanos, living in the eastern Bolivian foothills of the Andes.
Xetá †, Kaiowá, Ñandeva (Kaiwá 18,000 speakers, Ava Guarani 16,000 speakers) Tapiete , Chiriguano (Chiriguano 51,000 speakers) O'Hagan et al. (2014, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] 2019) proposes that Proto-Tupi-Guarani was spoken in the region of the lower Tocantins and Xingu Rivers , just to the south of Marajó Island in eastern Pará State, Brazil.