Guarani

High school (ages 12+)
People & Society

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1. What is the linguistic family?Tupi-Guarani
2. What is the primary geographic distribution?Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, southern Brazil, southeastern Bolivia
3. What is the Guarani people?The Guarani are an indigenous group who have lived in South America for a very long time. They live mainly in Paraguay, northeastern Argentina, southern Brazil, and southeastern Bolivia.
4. How did the Guarani language survive?Jesuit missionaries wrote the language and taught it in their missions. Today, the Guarani language is still spoken, especially in Paraguay where it is an official language.

Tupi-Guarani Family: A major group of indigenous languages spoken in South America, with shared origins.
Reducciones: Jesuit mission settlements established in South America to organize and evangelize indigenous populations.
Agglutinative Language: A language where words are formed by stringing together morphemes (meaningful units) without changing them much.
Ethnobotany: The scientific study of the traditional knowledge and customs of a people concerning plants and their medical, religious, and other uses.