Basic Data

• Name: Guarani Mbyá
• Alternative Names: Mbyá, Guaraní
• Auto-Denomination: Guarani
• Language Classification: Tupi, Tupi-Guarani, Subgroup I
• Population: 15,000 in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina
• Location: Southwestern Paraná, southeastern São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, Espíritu Santo, Minas Gerais. 35 villages. Also in Argentina.

Publications

Dooley, Robert A., 1976, Participants in Guarani Narrative (293 kB), Summer Institute of Linguistics.

———, 1978, Elementos Iniciais de Período na Língua Guarani do Brasil (in Portuguese, 243 kB), Summer Institute of Linguistics.

———, 1984, Nasalização na Língua Guarani (in Portuguese, 384 kB), Série Língüística Nº 11: 7-35.

———, 1987, Sentence Initial Elements in Brazilian Guarani (184 kB), Série Lingüística Nº 9, Vol 1: 157-197.

———, 1991, Apontamentos Preliminares sobre Ñandevá Guaraní Contemporâneo (in Portuguese, 526 kB), Summer Institute of Linguistics, Brasília, DF.

———, 2006, Léxico Guaraní, Dialeto Mbyá: Introduction (in Portuguese, 2424kB), Lexicon (in Portuguese, 1859 kB) Sociedade Internacional de Lingüística, Cuiabá, MT.

———, 2008, Períodos Guarani (in Portuguese, 477 kB), Associação Internacional de Lingüística, Cuiabá, MT.

———, 2008, Pronouns and Topicalization in Guarani Texts (307 kB), Associação Internacional de Lingüística, Cuiabá, MT.

Gudschinsky, Sarah C. and Waldo M. Aaron, 1971, Some Relational Post-Positionals of Guarani (334 kB) Estudos Sobre Línguas e Culturas Indígenas: 81-95.

More Information

For publications in Guarani and information about the language and culture, visit the web site Mundo Indígena (in Portuguese), published by the Associação Mundo Indígena with the objective of helping and strengthening the Guaraní indigenous communities and facilitating bilingual education.