Guarayu language

Guarayu
Gwarayú, nyanyanye, ñañañe, guarani'ete'
Native to	Bolivia, Paraguay
Region	Santa Cruz, Boquerón
Ethnicity	12,000 (2012)
Native speakers	8,400 (2012)
Language family	Tupian Tupí–Guaraní Guarayu–Sirionó Guarayu
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 numbered 23,910 in 2012.

There were some 30 speakers of Guarayu in Paraguay as of 2012.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i, ĩ	ɨ, ɨ̃	u, ũ
Mid	e, ẽ		o, õ
Open		a, ã

Consonants

		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

• [ᵐp, ⁿt, ᵑk] are heard as allophones of /p, t, k/ when in nasal vowel position.

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.