Guarani languages

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Guarani
Tupi–Guarani subgroup I
Geographic
distribution
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay
Linguistic classificationTupian
Glottologtupi1277

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:

The varieties of Guarani proper and Kaiwá have limited mutual intelligibility. Aché and Guarani are not mutually intelligible.[2] The position of Xetá is unclear.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ These varieties are identified as part of the language assigned the 'Guarani' code [grn] by the Library of Congress
  2. ^ Hill, Kim Ronald; Magdalena Hurtado, A. Aché Life History: The Ecology and Demography of a Foraging People. ISBN 9780202364063.