Tupí-Guarani languages
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Brazil , Bolivia , French Guiana , Paraguay , Peru | |
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The Tupí-Guaraní languages are the most important subgroup of the Tupí languages in South America . It includes 53 languages in 11 groups. The best-known representatives of these indigenous languages of America are the Guaraní subgroup and the now extinct languages Tupí and Tupinambá .
The words Carioca , Tanga , Jaguar and Piranha have their origins in Tupí. In addition, many Brazilian city and place names have their origins in the Tupí-Guaraní languages.
Classification of the Tupí-Guaraní languages
- Guarani I: Pai Tavytera (Paraguay), Ñandeva (Paraguay)
- Guarayu-Siriono-Jora II: Jorá (Bolivia), Yuqui (Bolivia)
- Pauserna: Pauserna (Bolivia)
- Subgroup I: Aché (Paraguay), Guaraní Ava (Paraguay), Guaraní Eastern Bolivian (Bolivia), Guaraní Mbyá (Brazil), Paraguayan Guaraní (Paraguay), Western Bolivian Guaraní (Bolivia), Kaiwá (Brazil), Xetá (Brazil)
- Subgroup II: Guarayu (Bolivia), Sirionó (Bolivia)
- Subgroup III: Cocama-Cocamilla (Peru), Nhengatu (Brazil), Omagua (Peru), Potiguára (Brazil), Tupí (Brazil), Tupinambá (Brazil), Tupinikin (Brazil)
- Subgroup IV: Asurini Tocantins (Brazil), Avá-Canoeiro (Brazil), Guajajára (Brazil), Parakanã (Brazil), Suruí do Pará (Brazil), Tapirapé (Brazil), Tembé (Brazil)
- Subgroup V: Araweté (Brazil), Asurini from Xingu (Brazil), Kayabí (Brazil)
- Subgroup VI: Amundava (Brazil), Apiaká (Brazil), Júma, (Brazil), Karipúna (Brazil), Karipuna (Brazil), Morerebi (Brazil), Paranawát (Brazil), Tenharim (Brazil), Tukumanféd (Brazil), Uru -Eu-Wau-Wau (Brazil), Uru-Pa-In (Brazil), Wiraféd (Brazil)
- Subgroup VII: Kamayurá (Brazil)
- Subgroup VIII: Amanayé (Brazil), Anambé (Brazil), Emerillon (French Guiana), Guajá (Brazil), Kaapor (Brazil), Turiwára (Brazil), Wayampi (Brazil), Zo'é (Brazil)
- Aurá (Brazil)
literature
- Ernst Kausen : The language families of the world. Part 2: Africa - Indo-Pacific - Australia - America. Buske, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-87548-656-8 (Chapter 14).