The Guarani Language

This video is all about Guarani, an indigenous language of South America and one of the official languages of Paraguay.

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00:00 Basic information about Guarani
00:53 A brief history of Guarani
03:40 How many Paraguayans speak Guarani?
03:55 What is Jopara?
04:24 Orthography and phonology
05:55 Guarani is agglutinative
07:17 Guarani Syntax
08:31 Guarani Verbs
12:16 Nominal tense in Guarani
12:57 Demonstratives in Guarani
13:43 More about Jopara
14:55 Closing comments
15:21 The Question of the Day

[JayForeman]

I spent six months in Paraguay as part of my gap year, volunteering in a school. The kids spoke Spanish the vast majority of the time, apart from when playing football, they’d shout to each other almost exclusively in guarani.

[-Omi--]

The word for study (ajetavy'o) literally means, I'm taking the stupidness out of me, and I think that is beautiful

[karaiwonder]

As a Guarani speaker, I have been waiting for this for many years.
I knew only Paul from Langfocus would be able to present the language in a concise and informative way

[androsRoccha]

I’m originally Brazilian, my mother was Paraguayan. She’d speak in Guarani with my Aunt, but both got confused every time they had to switch language, in that case to Portuguese. They always referred to Spanish language as Castilian, the Paraguayan are very gentle and vibrant, I have only good memories.

[Weissenschenkel]

I really appreciate the way Paul pronounced "Rondônia, " "Paraguay, " "Guarani, " "Asunción" and others. It's a gesture of caring about the spoken language that I also try to do as much as possible.

Guarani to me is unintelligible, although I'd possibly identify the spoken form from Paraguay.

[HereGoesKevin]

I'm half Paraguayan and half Korean, this video really brings a big smile on my face, finally Paraguay gets more recognition. I only speak Spanish, Korean, & English in a conversational level and very little Guarani since my mom never taught me, thanks for uploading this video, I'm motivated to learn more Guarani!

[gnomo.mágico]

As a Brazilian, I'm happy to see indigenous languages from South America been included.

[AllenFigueredo]

Avaiko oimo'ãta reñe'êtaha guarani neñe'êrehe 😂 "who would have thought you would talk about the Guarani language", I personally loved this video, it is one of my favorites now! Aguyje! 😃🇵🇾

[ewenmcpherson]

Just this year, the first "official" dictionary of the Guarani language was released by the Guarani Language Academy. It's monolingual and has about 2000 entries.

[nunes_]

I was literally talking about guaraní this morning with a friend, and now during my lunch break I saw this video notification popping up on my phone, best lunch break 💙✨

[Pokephosgene]

The grammar of Guarani has things that many other languages do, but in a more complex or unique way. The various pronouns and conjugations would be a challenge. I'm happy that a Native South American language survived and remained on top.

[jojodio]

What is fascinating about Guarani is the way it found a way to survive and even being spoken by non indigenous people. When I traveled to Paraguay white and even Asian descendants spoke Guarani too.

[KazuLanguages]

I'm Japanese and speak Spanish, but I didn't know anything about Guarani.
Languages of indigenous people in Latin America have huge variety so I would like to know more.

Your videos are always incredibly amazing and informative! Thank you!!

[elihap]

I'm paraguayan and jopara is extensively used in daily conversations, at least i use more spanish bc my guarani is weaker, but i'm on the way to improve it bc now i found it interesting, but usually when we encounter any foreign we tend to not use jopara in order to let them understand us. usually in the street we say "haupei" which means "and then?" as a greeting to others meaning "how r u" and we reply the same word. or we use " mba'eteko, mba'eichapa, or similar " as a greeting as well and we reply how we feel at that moment, usually "ipora aime hina" which means "i'm fine at this moment" or that is the expression i use. great video btw.

[rndm]

Paraguayan spanish phonology (even when speaking with 0% Guarani loanwords), is heavily influenced by Guarani phonology as well.

[ebernardou]

"Ajetavy'ó" as a way of saying study is super hilarious, because it literally means "I'm becoming less dumb" lmao

I'm from Paraguay, I've been following you for years and I am SO HAPPY to see this video 🥰😍

[danprieto_]

I love that Guaraní is being discussed in your channel. Greetings from Paraguay and aguyje (thank you).

[eitan-mt]

I speak fluently guaraní, I learned at school while I was living in Paraguay.
Now living in Malta, I usually use guaraní with my family when I want to ensure no one will understand.

I am amazed !! I adore your video it's a amazing, I didn't realize how hard could be guaraní until now !
Well done

[stevehavemann]

Hi Paul.
Thanks. Excellent job. I'm an English South African and have been living in Paraguay since 1986. As a language teacher I use Spanish and English more often but to get a point through I add some local Guarani Jopara and immediately the local people can grasp it better. I also live on the Brazilian border and therefore have learnt Portuguese too. I have seen locals using a tri lingual code switch. Not to mention the large Mennonite population that speak plattdütch and Guarani as too the large Japanese diaspora that also pick up Guarani quickly. You can find Tupi-Guarani words for animals and places from the northern Amazon in Brazil to the Patagonia in Argentina. Jaguar and Piranha are examples of Guarani words in English.