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Mbya
ayvu (language), nhandeayvu (our language)
Native to	Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay
Ethnicity	Guarani
Native speakers	15,050 (2007–2008)
Language family	Tupian Tupi–Guarani Guarani (I) Guarani Mbya
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`gun`
Glottolog	`mbya1239`
ELP	Mbyá

Mbya Guarani is a Tupi–Guarani Indigenous languages of the southern cone. It is 75% lexically similar to Paraguayan Guarani.

Mbya Guarani is one of a number of "Guarani dialects" now generally classified as distinct languages. Mbya is closely connected to Ava Guarani, also known as Ñandeva, and intermarriage between speakers of the two languages is common. Speakers of Mbya and Ñandeva generally live in mountainous areas of the Atlantic Forest, from eastern Paraguay through Misiones Province of Argentina, Uruguay to the southern Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i ĩ	ɨ ɨ̃	u ũ
Mid	ɛ ɛ̃		o õ
Open	a ã

Vowel sounds /ɛ, o/ can also be heard as in free variation.
/i, u/ when preceding vowels can be heard as non-syllabic

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	plain	lab.	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	kʷ	ʔ
Plosive	prenasal/vd.	m ~ ᵐb	n ~ ⁿd	ɲ ~ dʒ	ŋ ~ ᵑɡ	ŋʷ ~ ɡʷ
Nasal		m ~ ᵐb	n ~ ⁿd	ɲ ~ dʒ	ŋ ~ ᵑɡ	ŋʷ ~ ɡʷ
Fricative		β̞ ~ v					h
Approximant		β̞ ~ v		(i̯)	(u̯)
Tap			ɾ

/β̞/ can also be realized as [v] or [u̯] in free variation.
Nasal sounds /m, n, ŋ/ can also be heard as prenasalized stops in free variation.
/ɲ, ŋʷ/ can be heard as before oral vowels, and as before nasal vowels.

References

^ Mbya at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Ladeira, Maria Inês (2018-03-26). "Guarani Mbya". Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Instituto Socioambiental. Retrieved 2019-02-01.
Fileti Martins, Marci (2003). Descrição e Análise de Aspectos da Gramática do Guarani Mbyá. Universidade Estadual de Campinas.

External links

Mbya Guarani Collection of Robert Dooley, including interlinear texts with glosses and free translations in Portuguese and English and grammatical labels in English, from the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.
A Description of the Sound System of Misiones Mbya (de Paula, 2016).

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Italics indicate extinct languages

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Guarani (I)	Aché Guarani Chiripá Jopara East Bolivian Mbyá Paraguayan West Bolivian Kaiwá Pai Tavytera Xeta
Guarayu (II)	Guarayu Pauserna Sirionó
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Tenetehara (IV)	Akwáwa Avá-Canoeiro Tapirapé Tenetehara Guajajara Turiwára
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