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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 Thesaurus of the Guarani Language (Spanish: Tesoro de la lengua guaraní) is a Classical Guarani–Spanish bilingual dictionary written by the Peruvian Jesuit priest and scholar Antonio Ruiz de Montoya. It was published in 1639. [1] The Thesaurus was the first Guarani–Spanish dictionary. It gives examples of contexts in which to use the ...
It consists of about fifty languages, including Guarani and Old Tupi. The most widely spoken in modern times by far is Guarani, which is one of the two official languages of Paraguay . The words petunia , jaguar , piranha , ipecac , tapioca , jacaranda , anhinga , carioca , and capoeira are of Tupi–Guarani origin.
As Old Tupi is a dead language, the dictionary has a philological approach. It was based on old texts rather than native speakers, making it a historical dictionary. The entry words were extracted from texts written in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Guarani Language and Culture Athenaeum (Guarani: Guarani Ñe’ẽte ha Arandu Anamandaje; Spanish: Ateneo de Lengua y Cultura Guarani) is an autonomous Paraguayan philanthropic institution founded by David Galeano Olivera on September 23, 1985, [1] [2] whose main objective is the recovery, valuation, and dissemination of the Guarani language, folklore, and culture.
Tupian languages have extensively influenced many language families in South America. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Arawa, Bora-Muinane, Guato, Irantxe, Jivaro, Karib, Kayuvava, Mura-Matanawi, Taruma, Trumai, Yanomami, Harakmbet, Katukina-Katawixi, Arawak, Bororo, Karaja, Macro-Mataguayo-Guaykuru, Takana, Nadahup, and Puinave-Kak language families due to ...
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.
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