Guarani Sentence Examples

Cabot in his voyage had seen many silver ornaments in the possession of the Timbu and Guarani Indians.

Fauna.-Among wild animals the tiger or ounce-called in the Guarani language the ja-gud or "big dog"-and the puma are found on the frontier of Brazil and on the wooded islets and banks of the larger rivers.

In the Guarani language "Charrua" means turbulent, and by their enemies the Charruas were accounted as such, and even ferocious, although admitted to be generous to their captives.

The Brazilian composer Carlos Gomes (1839-1896) is the best known of those who have adopted music as a profession, his opera Il Guarani having been produced at most of the European capitals.

The great majority of the inhabitants are of Indian (Guarani) descent, with very slight traces of foreign blood.

The common language of the country is Guarani, although in a few districts Tupi is spoken.

Inhabiting the southern part of the Bolivian plain are the Chiriguanos, a detached tribe of the Guarani race which drifted westward to the vicinity of the Andes long ago.

Although Spanish is the language of the dominant minority, Quichua, Aymara and Guarani are the languages of the natives, who form a majority of the population.

Owing to its patronage by the Jesuit missionaries the Guarani language became a widespread medium of communication, and in a corrupted form is still the common language in Paraguay.

Since then, they have offered hand-tooled leather goods.The leather tooling is done by craftsmen from the Guarani Indian tribe.