Alternate Names: Bugre, Mbiá, Mbua, Mbyá
Dialects: Baticola, Tambéopé. Lexical similarity: 75% with Paraguayan Guaraní ,. A member of macrolanguage Guarani ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 6,000 in Brazil (2008 CTI). Population total all countries: 15,050. Most children, women and elders are monolingual (Crevels 2007).
Language Use: Also use Portuguese [por].
Language Development: Literacy rate in L1: 10%–30%. Literacy rate in L2: 15%–25%. Dictionary. Bible: 2004.
Typology: SVO.
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Brazil