Chiripá (ethnic group)
The Chiripá are an indigenous Guaraní people in South America , who still live today mainly in Paraguay and in small groups in Argentina and Brazil . Their origins could be derived from the Carima and Mbarakayú groups, which have been colonized since the 17th and 18th centuries.
distribution
In Paraguay around 2002 there were about 6,918 people belonging to the Chiripá or Avá-Guaraní ethnic group , 1,900 of whom were speakers of the Chiripá idiom. For the year 2012 the "National Census of Population and Housing for Indigenous Peoples" gives a number of 17,697 Avá-Guaraní: 9448 in the department Canindeyú , 5061 in the department Alto Paraná , 1524 in the department San Pedro , 946 in the department Caaguazú , and 379 in Asunción .
In Argentina, Avá guaraní live in small groups among the Mbyá in the Misiones province . In the village of Fortín Mbororé , near Puerto Iguazú, there is an important group that lives with a Mbyá majority. They are very highly adapted but retain their dialects and religious traditions. The 2010 census in Argentina showed the existence of 422 people who identified themselves as Avá guaraní in the province of Misiones and 104 in the province of Corrientes , but it is indistinguishable how many of them may belong to the Chiriguano group .
About 4900 Avá Chiripá (also Avakatueté or Avá katú eté ), Tsiripá or Apytaré (also Ñandéva ) still live in Brazil . The Ñandéva language is spoken in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná , on the Rio Iguatemi and its tributaries, also near the confluence of the Río Paraná and Rio Iguatemi.
The Brazilian Chiripá community of Ocoí was inundated by the Itaipú reservoir in 1982 .
language
The Chiripá language belongs to the Tupi language family and there to the Tupí-Guaraní languages , Guaraní subgroup I. It is similar to the Paraguayan Guaraní- Yopará , a language that has been adopted by the Chiripá. The most famous dialect is Apapocuva .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lenguas del mundo
- ↑ Glosario de lenguas indígenas sudamericanas, Edgardo Civallero, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba ( Memento of May 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Results preliminares del censo 2012. Población por departamento según pueblo indígena
- ↑ Cuadro 2. Población indígena o descendiente de pueblos indígenas u originarios en viviendas particulares por sexo, según pueblo indígena. Total del país. Año 2010. Pág. 281 ( Memento from October 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ INDEC 2010. Pueblos originarios. Región Noroeste Argentino. ( Memento from November 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Lenguas del mundo