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Guaraní, Mbyá

A language of Brazil

ISO 639-3: gun

Population	6,000 in Brazil (2003 ISA). Population total all countries: 25,450.
Region	Southwestern Paraná, southeastern São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Espíritu Santo, Minas Gerais. 35 villages in 7 states. Also in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay.
Language map	Brazil, reference number 172
Alternate names	Bugre, Mbiá, Mbua, Mbyá
Dialects	Tambéopé, Baticola. Lexical similarity: 75% with Paraguayan Guaraní [gug].
Classification	Tupi, Tupi-Guarani, Subgroup I A member of macrolanguage Guarani [grn] (Paraguay).
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. Bible: 2004.
Writing system	Latin script.
Comments	SVO.

Also spoken in:

Argentina

Language name	Guaraní, Mbyá
Population	3,000 in Argentina (2002 R. Dooley).
Region	Northeast Argentina.
Language map	Argentina and Chile
Alternate names	Eastern Argentina Guaraní, Mbua, Mbyá
Comments	Traditional religion.

Paraguay

Language name	Guaraní, Mbyá
Population	16,400 in Paraguay (2007 Perik).
Region	Departamentos de Caaguazú, Guairá, Caazapá, San Pedro, Concepción, Canindeyú, Itapúa, and scattered.
Language map	Paraguay, reference number 10
Alternate names	Mbua, Mbyá
Language use	All ages.
Comments	Some Chiripá may live among them. Special vocabulary, ‘ayvu porã’, used for ritual purposes. Agriculturalists.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

Dooley, Robert A. 1977. "A constituent boundary marker in Guaraní."

Dooley, Robert A. 1979/1980. "Componentes semânticos na terminologia de parentesco Guaraní."

Dooley, Robert A. 1982. "Options in the pragmatic structuring of Guaraní sentences."

Dooley, Robert A. 1982. Vocabulário do guarani: Vocabulário básico do guarani contemporâneo (dialeto Mbüá do Brasil).

Dooley, Robert A. 1983. "Spatial deixis in Guaraní."

Dooley, Robert A. 1984. "Nasalização na língua guaraní."

Dooley, Robert A. 1986. "Sentence-initial elements in Brazilian Guaraní."  

Dooley, Robert A. 1987. "Basic configurations of pragmatic structuring."

Dooley, Robert A. 1988. "Pragmatics and grammar: Motivation and control."

Dooley, Robert A. 1989. "Switch reference in Mbyá Guaraní: a fair-weather phenomenon."

Dooley, Robert A. 1991. "A double-verb construction in Mbyá Guaraní."

Dooley, Robert A. 1992. "When switch reference moves to discourse: Developmental markers in Mbyá Guaraní."  

Dooley, Robert A. 1999. "A noncategorical approach to coherence relations: Switch-reference in Mbyá Guaraní."

Dooley, Robert A. 2005. "Source-language versus target-language discourse features in translating the Word of God."  

Dooley, Robert A. 2006-. Léxico Guarani, dialeto Mbyá com informações úteis para o ensino médio, a aprendizagem e a pesquisa lingüística.  

Dooley, Robert A. 2008. "When switch reference moves to discourse."

Dooley, Robert A. 2008. Períodos Guarani.  

Dooley, Robert A. 2008. Pronouns and topicalization in Guarani texts.  

Dooley, Robert A. Available: 2008; Created: 1976. Participants in Guarani narrative.  

Dooley, Robert A., compiler. 1997. Vocabulário Guaraní-Português.

Dooley, Robert A., editor. 1984. Estudos sobre línguas tupí do Brasil.

Grimes, Joseph E., editor. 1986. Sentence initial devices.  

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. and Waldo M. Aaron. 1971. "Some relational post-positionals of Guaraní."

Gudschinsky, Sarah C., editor. 1971. Estudos sôbre línguas e culturas indígenas: Trabalhos linguísticos realizados no Brasil (edição especial).

Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1991. Review of: Sentence initial devices, by Joseph E. Grimes, editor.

Jensen, Cheryl. 2008. "Excerpts from cross-referencing changes in some Tupí-Guaraní languages."

Lemle, Miriam. 1971. "Internal classification of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic family."  

Taylor, John M. and Audrey Taylor. 1966. "Nove contos contados pelos kaiwás e guaranis."