Mbyá Guaraní is a
Tupi–Guarani Indigenous language of the southern cone. It is 75% lexically similar to
Paraguayan Guarani.
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Mbyá Guaraní is one of a number of " Guarani dialects" now generally classified as distinct languages. Mbyá is closely connected to Ava Guarani, also known as Ñandeva, and intermarriage between speakers of the two languages is common. Speakers of Mbyá and Ñandeva generally live in mountainous areas of the Atlantic Forest, from eastern ]Paraguay
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through Misiones Province of Argentina
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, Uruguay
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to the southern Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul
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.
Phonology
Vowels
* Vowel sounds /ɛ, o/ can also be heard as , ɔin free variation.
* /i, u/ when preceding vowels can be heard as non-syllabic ̯, u̯
Consonants
* /β̞/ can also be realized as or in free variation.
* Nasal sounds /m, n, ŋ/ can also be heard as prenasalized stops ��b, ⁿd, ᵑɡin free variation.
* /ɲ, ŋʷ/ can be heard as ̯~dʒ, ɡʷbefore oral vowels, and as �, ŋʷbefore nasal vowels.
References
External links
Mbya Guarani Collection
of Robert Dooley, including interlinear texts with glosses and free translations in Portuguese and English and grammatical labels in English, from the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.
A Description of the Sound System of Misiones Mbya
(de Paula, 2016).
Guarani languages
Languages of Paraguay
Languages of Argentina
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Languages of Brazil