guarani

I speak guarani, an indigenous language spoken in Paraguay, and it's funny how it makes words out that sound like guarani but aren't really.

Also, languages like Guarani survived because of the efforts of missionaries (the Jesuits in this case).

In Paraguay blond, blue eyed, natives who only speak Guarani are witnesses of the Triple Alliance's widespread rape (150 years ago?).

It also pretty much single-handedly exposed generations of Brazilians to Guarani indigenous culture (e.g.

Without wishing to get political, is the difference that Iceland is a country but Guarani speakers don't have a nation-state of their own?

You see this in Paraguay where the Jesuits immediately began codifying and preserving Guarani in their missions, and where it is still widely spoken today.

Most Paraguayans only speak Spanish, or Guarani (the native language).

Or let the Guarani and other natives have their way.

I helped bootstrap Guarani and Breton and a few other languages spoken by friends of mine, but in the end, it just takes one or two people.

I don’t think this argument holds as they added languages with a very low amount of speakers such as Navajo, Hawaiian, Guarani and Māori and even High Valyrian and Klingon.

Here in Brazil, where the fruit originates, the most common name for it is "abacaxi", It's supposed to come from Tupi-Guarani family of languages and means "fruit with a nice smell".

“Latino” refers to the mixed descendants of Spanish or Portuguese ancestry as opposed to the indigenous Mayans, Guarani, Aymara, etc that still inhabit the continent, numbering in the millions.

To me it sounds like a Samoyedic Lithuanian dialect of Guarani, with classical Arabian inflections.

There's multiple native languages that are being shared here, like the thread above about Guarani.

There are other Tupi-Guarani words that made it to other languages, like Açaí, Piranha, Capybara,...