Guarayu language
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| Guarayu | |
|---|---|
| Gwarayú, nyanyanye, ñañañe, guarani'ete' | |
| Native to | Bolivia, Paraguay |
| Region | Santa Cruz, Boquerón |
| Ethnicity | 12,000 (2012)[1] |
Native speakers | 8,400 (2012)[1] |
Tupian
| |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Bolivia |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gyr |
| Glottolog | guar1292 |
| ELP | Guarayu |
Guarayu (Guarayu: Gwarayú, nyanyanye, ñañañe, guarani'ete) is a Tupian language of Bolivia that is spoken by the Guarayo people who number 23,910 in 2012.[2]
There were some 30 speakers of Guarayu in Paraguay as of 2012. [3]
Phonology
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i, ĩ | ɨ, ɨ̃ | u, ũ |
| Mid | e, ẽ | o, õ | |
| Open | a, ã |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | ||||||
| Nasal | central | m | n | ɲ | |||
| post-ploded | mᵇ | nᵈ | |||||
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
| pre-ploded | ᶢw | ||||||
| prenasal vl. | (ᵐp) | (ⁿt) | (ᵑk) | ||||
| prenasal vd. | ᵑɡ | ᵑᶢw | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | |||||
| Fricative | β | s | |||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||
| Glide | j | w | |||||
- are heard as allophones of /p, t, k/ when in nasal vowel position.[4]
References
- ^ a b Guarayu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2012 Bolivia Características de la Población". Instituto Nacional de Estadística, República de Bolivia. p. 29. Archived from the original on 2021-08-01. Retrieved 2020-04-01.
- ^ "PROEL, Lengua Guarayú".
- ^ Danielsen, Swintha (2020). Gwarayu Ñe’ësa 3: Revista sobre la lengua guarayu - Número 3. Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
Further reading
- Anónimo (2005). Gwarayu Ñe’ë, diccionario guarayo - castellano - guarayo. Cochabamba: Sociedad Bíblica Boliviana.
- Hoeller, Alfredo (1932). Guarayo-Deutsches Wörterbuch. Guarayos: Verlag der Missionsprokura der P.P. Franziskaner, Hall in Tirol.
External links
- Megan Crowhurst. "Audio recordings of stories and conversation in Guarayu". The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of South American. AILLA. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02.
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