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Guarani (/ ˌɡwɑːrəˈniː, ˈɡwɑːrəni / 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. It is one of the official languages of ...
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. The Guarani languages are: Xetá. The varieties of Guarani proper and Kaiwá have limited mutual intelligibility.
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 ...
Guarani dialects. The Guaraní language belongs to the Tupí-Guaraní branch of the Tupí linguistic family. [1] There are three distinct groups within the Guaraní subgroup, they are: the Kaiowá, the Mbyá and the Ñandeva. [2] In Latin America, the indigenous language that is most widely spoken amongst non-indigenous communities is Guaraní. [3]
Tacuñapé / Eidum / Péua – extinct language once spoken on the Iriri River and Novo River. (only a few words.) Tacumandícai / Caras Pretas – language of a very little known tribe that lived on the lower course of the Xingú River. Jauari – extinct language once spoken on the Vermelho River and Araguaia River. (Unattested.)
The majority of the population of Paraguay uses both languages (Spanish and Guarani). About 70% of the population is bilingual, speaking Spanish and Guarani at least to some degree. True bilingualism in which both languages are spoken equally is difficult in practice for many people. This is especially true in the interior parts of the country ...
Some feel that the digraph ch should be changed to x (as in Portuguese, Galician and Old Spanish ), and that g̃ should be replaced by plain g , with the tilde being placed on one of the adjacent vowels. 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 ...
The Indigenous languages of the Americas had widely varying demographics, from the Quechuan languages, Aymara, Guarani, and Nahuatl, which had millions of active speakers, to many languages with only several hundred speakers. After pre-Columbian times, several Indigenous creole languages developed in the Americas, based on European, Indigenous ...