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Tupian language spoken in South America
Mbyá Guaraní is a Tupi–Guarani Indigenous language of the southern cone. It is 75% lexically similar to Paraguayan Guarani.[1]
Mbyá Guaraní is one of a number of “Guarani dialects” now generally classified as distinct languages.[citation needed] 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 through Misiones Province of Argentina, Uruguay to the southern Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul.[2]
- Vowel sounds /ɛ, o/ can also be heard as [e, ɔ] in free variation.
- /i, u/ when preceding vowels can be heard as non-syllabic [i̯, u̯]
- /β̞/ can also be realized as [v] or [u̯] in free variation.
- Nasal sounds /m, n, ŋ/ can also be heard as prenasalized stops [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ] in free variation.
- /ɲ, ŋʷ/ can be heard as [i̯~dʒ, ɡʷ] before oral vowels, and as [ɲ, ŋʷ] before nasal vowels.[3]
- ^ a b Mbyá at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Ladeira, Maria Inês (2018-03-26). “Guarani Mbya”. Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Instituto Socioambiental. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
- ^ Fileti Martins, Marci (2003). Descrição e Análise de Aspectos da Gramática do Guarani Mbyá. Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
