Mbyá Guaraní language

Mbyá
Native to Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay
Ethnicity Guaraní
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. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Mbyá Guaraní". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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