Guarani languages
| Guaraní | |
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| Tupí–Guaraní subgroup I | |
| Geographic distribution: | Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay |
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| Glottolog: | tupi1277[1] |
The Guaraní languages are a group of half a dozen or so languages in the Tupí–Guaraní language family. The best known language in this family is Guaraní, one of the national languages of Paraguay, alongside Spanish.
The Guaraní languages are:
- Guaraní dialect chain: Western Bolivian Guaraní (Simba), Eastern Bolivian Guaraní (Chawuncu; Ava, Tapieté dialects), Paraguayan Guaraní (Guarani), Chiripá Guaraní (Nhandéva, Avá), Mbyá Guaraní (Mbya)[2]
- Kaiwá (Paí Tavyterá dialect)
- Aché (Guayaki) (several dialects)
- ? Xetá
The varieties of Guaraní proper and Kaiwá have limited mutual intelligibility. Aché and Guaraní are not mutually intelligible. The position of Xetá is unclear.
Notes
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Tupi–Guarani Subgroup I". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ These varieties are all described as part of the Guarani 'macrolanguage' by Ethnologue 16
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