Chiripá Guarani (Tsiripá, Txiripá), also known asAva Guarani andNhandéva (Ñandeva), is aGuaraní language spoken inParaguay,Brazil, and alsoArgentina. Nhandéva is closely connected toMbyá Guaraní, as intermarriage between speakers of the two languages is common. Speakers of Nhandéva and Mbyá generally live in mountainous areas of theAtlantic Forest, from easternParaguay throughMisiones Province ofArgentina to the southern Brazilian states ofParaná,Santa Catarina, andRio Grande do Sul.^[2] There are approximately 4,900 speakers in Brazil and 7,000 in Paraguay.

• Vowel sounds /ɛ, a, ɨ, ɔ/ may also have realizations of [e, ɐ, ɯ, o].

• Prenasal sounds /ᵐb, ⁿd/ may also be realized as nasal sonorants [m, n] in front of nasal vowels.
• /j/ can be heard as [ɲ] within nasal syllables, and as a prenasal affricate [ⁿdʒ] when /j/ precedes nasal syllables in coda position.
• /j/ can be heard as [dʒ] within syllable onset before oral vowels.
• /k, kʷ/ can be heard as [ᵑɡ, ᵑɡʷ] between or after nasal vowels.
• /ts/ can also be heard as[s] word-medially in free variation.
• /w/ can be heard in free variation between labiodental sounds[ʋ] or[v] among speakers of different areas.
• Sonorant sounds /w, ɾ, j/ within nasal syllables are realized as nasalized [w̃, ɾ̃, j̃].^[3]

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