Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní, is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí-Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay, where it is spoken by 88% of the population, with half of the rural population monolingual.

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  • Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní, is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí-Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay, where it is spoken by 88% of the population, with half of the rural population monolingual. It is spoken by communities in neighbouring countries, including parts of northern Argentina and southwestern Brazil, and is a second official language of the Argentine provinces of Corrientes and Misiones. Guaraní is the only indigenous language of the Americas whose overwhelming majority of speakers are non-indigenous people. This is an anomaly in the Americas where language shift towards more prestigious official languages (in this case, Spanish) has otherwise been a nearly universal cultural and identity marker of mestizos, and also of culturally assimilated, upwardly-mobile Amerindian people. Jesuit priest Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, who wrote a book called Tesoro de la lengua guaraní ("The Treasure of the Guaraní Language"), described Guaraní as a language "so copious and elegant that it can compete with the most famous [of languages]. " The name "Guarani" is generally used for the official language of Paraguay. However, this is part of a macrolanguage, or dialect chain, most of whose components are also often called Guaraní. See Guaraní language.
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  • American
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  • Paraguayan) Guaraní
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  • Guarani language
  • Paraguayan guaraní
  • other varieties of Guarani
  • the Paraguayan language
  • the currency
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  • 4,650,000 in Paraguay (SIL 1995), 200,000 in Argentina
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  • Guaraní, specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guaraní, is an indigenous language of South America that belongs to the Tupí-Guaraní subfamily of the Tupian languages. It is one of the official languages of Paraguay, where it is spoken by 88% of the population, with half of the rural population monolingual.
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  • Paraguayan Guaraní
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  • (Paraguayan) Guaraní
  • avañe'ẽ
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