Mbyá Guaraní language

Mbyá
Native to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Ethnicity Mbayá
Native speakers
 15,050 (2007–2008)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gun
Glottolog mbya1239[2]

Mbyá Guaraní is a Tupi–Guaraní language spoken 6,000 Brazilians, 3,000 Argentines, and 8,000 Paraguayans. It is 75% lexically similar to Paraguayan Guaraní.[1]

Mbyá Guaraní is one of a number of "Guaraní dialects" now generally classified as distinct languages.

References

  1. 1 2 Mbyá at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Mbyá Guaraní". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Guarani Mbya is a sub group of the family Tupi Guarani. It is important to remember that in Brazil has existed the concentration of all coast from Paraguay to the Brazilian Coast of Espirito Santo. This bigger group has been known as Guarani Mbya, Kaiowa and Nhandeva. There are some cultural linguistic and cultural differences among them. Another group who belongs to Tupi Guarani family is the Tupinamba group. Hans Staden has written about them and also Curt Unkel Nimuendaju, also a lot of Brazilian anthropologists like Florestan Fernandes, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Carlos Fausto, Manuela Carneiro da Cunha and many others. Also while the subgroups Guarani are near the coast another group of the family Tupi Guarani was living in the region of Bahia as far as Ceará state. This group was the Tupinamba group.


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