Chiripá Guarani (Tsiripá, Txiripá), also known as Ava Guarani and ''Nhandéva'' (''Ñandeva''), is a Guaraní language spoken in

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, and also

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. Nhandéva is closely connected to Mbyá Guaraní, as intermarriage between speakers of the two languages is common. Speakers of Nhandéva and Mbyá generally live in mountainous areas of the Atlantic Forest, from eastern

through Misiones Province of

to the southern Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and

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. There are approximately 4,900 speakers in Brazil and 7,000 in Paraguay. Nhandéva is also known as Chiripá. The Spanish spelling, Ñandeva, is used in the Paraguayan Chaco to refer to the local variety of Eastern Bolivian, a subdialect of Avá.

Phonology

Vowels

* Vowel sounds /ɛ, a, ɨ, ɔ/ may also have realizations of , ɐ, ɯ, o

Consonants

* Prenasal sounds /ᵐb, ⁿd/ may also be realized as nasal sonorants

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in front of nasal vowels. * /j/ can be heard as �within nasal syllables, and as a prenasal affricate ��dʒwhen /j/ precedes nasal syllables in coda position. * /j/ can be heard as ʒwithin syllable onset before oral vowels. * /k, kʷ/ can be heard as ��ɡ, ᵑɡʷbetween or after nasal vowels. * /ts/ can also be heard as word-medially in free variation. * /w/ can be heard in free variation between labiodental sounds or among speakers of different areas. * Sonorant sounds /w, ɾ, j/ within nasal syllables are realized as nasalized ̃, ɾ̃, j̃

References

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