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Guarani

Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Guarani is a Tupian language belonging to the Tupi-Guarani branch of South America. It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay, where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and where half of the rural population are monolingual speakers of the language.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
gug 1
Speaker Count
6,500,000 1
2020 estimate, native speakers, for Paraguayan Guarani.
Status
Living 1
Wikipedia article on Guarani: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27.
Region
Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil 1
Classification
Official Status
Official Language 1
Connections

In Family

Guarani languages, Language Families
Source Wikipedia: Guarani Language
Tupian, Language Families
Source Wikipedia: Guarani Language

Written In

Latin Script, Scripts

Guarani is standardly written in the Latin alphabet.

In the Other Atlases

Cases Where Used

The Southern Cone

Also in Divinity Atlas: used in this subject.

Guarani

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Source Guarani people (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
The Guarani are a group of culturally-related indigenous peoples of South America.

Found In

South America

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.

Source Wikipedia: Guarani LanguageLead sentence 1tier 2
Quote, Lead sentence 1
Guarani (avañe'ẽ) is a Tupian language belonging to the Tupi–Guarani branch of South America.
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Guarani Language
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Lead section
    Guarani (avañe'ẽ) is a Tupian language belonging to the Tupi-Guarani branch of South America. It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay (along with Spanish), where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and where half of the rural population are monolingual speakers of the language.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    gug
  • Infobox: date
    2020
  • Infobox: state
    Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil
  • Lead section
    It is one of the two official languages of Paraguay (along with Spanish), where it is spoken by the majority of the population, and where half of the rural population are monolingual speakers of the language.
  • In Family: Tupian, Infobox, Language family
    Tupian
  • In Family: Guarani languages, Infobox: fam3
    Tupi-Guarani subgroup (I)
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