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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.
The Tupi people, a subdivision of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families, were one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil before its colonization. Scholars believe that while they first settled in the Amazon rainforest, from about 2,900 years ago the Tupi started to migrate southward and gradually occupied the Atlantic coast of Southeast Brazil.
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 ...
The Tupí or Tupinambá languages (also known as Tupi–Guarani III) are a subgroup of the Tupi–Guarani language family. [1] Languages. The Tupi languages are: [2]
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] [citation needed] "the people's language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch [4] of the Tupian language family.
Tupi–Guarani (medium pink), other Tupian (violet), and probable range c. 1500 (pink-grey) The Tupi or Tupian language family comprises some 70 languages spoken in South America , of which the best known are Tupi proper and Guarani .
A different variety of Guarani, Western Argentine Guarani, is spoken further west by about 15,000 speakers, mostly in Jujuy, but also in Salta Province. It refers essentially to the same variety of Guarani as Eastern Bolivian Guarani. [24] Additionally, another variety of Guarani known as Mbyá is spoken in Argentina by 3,000 speakers.
The Xingu languages (also known as Tupi–Guarani V) are a subgroup of the Tupi–Guarani language family. [1] Languages. The Xingu languages are: [2]