Talk:Guarani languages

Accents

The spelling of the words "Tupi" and "Guarani" is nor consistent within the Wikipedia. Sometimes they appear with accute accents ("Tupí" and "Guaraní") which is the Spanish version, and sometimes without these accents (the Portuguese version). Tsf 19:20, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Yes. If we assume that Wikipedia is to be written in English, then I think they should be written without accents. FilipeS 19:59, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Groups

This page says that Guarani I and II are Guarani languages. Tupi-Guarani languages says that these are two independent branches. Can we reconcile? Are the Guarani languages not monophyletic, or does the T-G article need updating? kwami (talk) 22:00, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

This seems to be just another of the hundreds of cases where Ethnologue worded the families differently in their various language articles, so that the automated cladistic generator produced multiple branches. For example, "Guarayu-Siriono-Jora II" does not contain Guarayu or Siriono, which are listed under "Subgroup II". It would appear that the two branches are synonymous, and merely lacked a human editor to put them together. Subgroup I was also split. I'm going to assume from this that Pauserna and Aurá are simply not overtly classified, rather than independent branches, pending a RS that they actually are independent branches. kwami (talk) 21:38, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Merge

According to Guarani language, it would appear that "Guarani language" is synonymous with "Guarani languages". Do we have any ref that Mbya Guarani, Ava Guarani, etc. are more distant than Bolivian & Paraguayan Guarani? kwami (talk) 21:53, 7 August 2009 (UTC)