| Guarayu | |
|---|---|
| Gwarayú,nyanyanye,ñañañe,guarani'ete' | |
| Native to | Bolivia,Paraguay |
| Region | Santa Cruz,Boquerón |
| Ethnicity | 12,000 (2012)[1] |
Native speakers | 8,400 (2012)[1] |
Tupian
| |
| Official status | |
Official language in |  Bolivia |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gyr |
| Glottolog | guar1292 |
| ELP | Guarayu |
Guarayu (Guarayu:Gwarayú, nyanyanye, ñañañe, guarani'ete) is aTupian language ofBolivia that is spoken by theGuarayo people who number 23,910 in 2012.[2]
There were some 30 speakers of Guarayu in Paraguay as of 2012.[3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i,ĩ | ɨ,ɨ̃ | u,ũ |
| Mid | e,ẽ | o,õ | |
| Open | a,ã |
| 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 | |||||
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