Guarani languages

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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.

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

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.

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Notes

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  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.