Mbyá Guaraní
Mbyá Guaraní is a Tupian language spoken in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay. Glottolog rates it threatened.
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Mbyá Guaraní is a dialect of the Guarani language spoken by the Mbyá Guaraní. It is 75% lexically similar to Paraguayan Guarani.
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 through Misiones Province of Argentina, Uruguay to the southern Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul.
From Wikipedia · Mbyá Guaraní dialect · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Mbyá Guaraní
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | xy | |
| woman | kunha | |
| nose | xĩ | |
| tongue | apekũ | |
| heart | py'a | |
| head | akã | |
| water | y | |
| fire | tata | |
| moon | jaxy | |
| star | jaxy tata | |
| river | yakã | |
| tree | yvyra | |
| leaf | ogue | |
| night | pytũ | |
| dog | jagua | |
| cat | xivi'i | |
| fish | pira | |
| bird | guyra | |
| horse | kavaju | |
| pig | poryko | |
| snake | mboi | |
| one | peteĩ | |
| two | mokoĩ | |
| I | xee | |
| you | ndee | |
| see | exa | |
| salt | juky | |
| bread | mbojape | |
| honey | ei | |
| orange | narã |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- KaiwáTupian66% alike
- Eastern Bolivian GuaraníTupian59% alike
- Avá-CanoeiroTupian54% alike
- GuarayuTupian51% alike
- NheengatuTupian50% alike
- Urubú-KaaporTupian49% alike
Grammar
- Eastern Bolivian GuaraníTupian87% alike
- AwetíTupian86% alike
- ArikapúNuclear-Macro-Je85% alike
- TupinambáTupian85% alike
- Avá-CanoeiroTupian84% alike
- DjeoromitxíNuclear-Macro-Je84% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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