Ava Guarani dialect
Dialect of the Guarani language. It is spoken in the Atlantic Forest of Paraguay, Argentina, and south of Brazil
Chiripá Guaraní (Tsiripá, Txiripá), also known as Ava Guaraní and Nhandéva (Ñandeva), is a dialect of the Guarani language spoken in Paraguay, Brazil, and also Argentina. Nhandéva is closely connected to Mbyá Guaraní, as intermarriage between speakers of the two languages is common. Speakers of Nhandéva and Mbyá generally live in mountainous areas of the Atlantic Forest, from eastern Paraguay through Misiones Province of Argentina to the southern Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul. There are approximately 4,900 speakers in Brazil and 7,000 in Paraguay.
Phonology
Vowels
Vowel sounds /ɛ, a, ɨ, ɔ/ may also have realizations of [e, ɐ, ɯ, o].
Consonants
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.
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