Güenoa language explained

Güenoa
States:Uruguay, Argentina
Extinct:?
Familycolor:American
Iso3:none
Glotto:guen1235
Glottorefname:Güenoa

Güenoa is a sparsely documented, extinct Charruan language once spoken in Uruguay and Argentina.

Text sample

Güenoa is known from a short 18th-century catechesis quoted by Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro in Italian.[1] [2] The text sample below, originally from Hervás y Panduro (1787: 229), has been reproduced from Vignati (1940).Vignati, Milcíades A. 1940. El catecismo Güenoa del Abate Hervás. Notas del Museo de la Plata: Antropología 5: 41-43.

Güenoa Italian English translation
Mana hum Tupa amat atei Dimmi, c'è Dio? Tell me, is there God?
An, Tupa amat onat Sì, Dìo c'è. Yes, there is.
Tupa retant atei Dii quanti sono! Say how many there are!
Yut isa Uno solamente. Only one.
Guar-ete Tupa Chi è Dìo? Who is God?
On, dik Ineu, dik Espiritu-santo, detit persona Padre, Figliuolo, Spirito Santo, tre persone, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, three persons,
Tupa yut tem amat Dio uno solo. One God.
Guarete ëeuvuit edam dik eutemar, esek evvau etsi ueda atei? Chi è stato, che si è fatto uomo per noi altri? Who was it, who became man for us?
Tupa-ineu Di Dio il figlio. God's son.
Hapatan retant Come si chiama? What was his name?
Hesu-Kisto Gesu Cristo. Jesus Christ.
Hallen atei Hesu-Kisto Morto fu Gesu Cristo? Did Jesus Christ die?
Hallen Morì. He died.
Retanle dik hallen? Per quale fine morì? Why did he die?
Ramudi mar natios taamaban asari Noi a liberare da nostri peccati, To free us from our sins.
Dik inambi atei? E vivo ritorno? And did he return alive?
An, onat inambi atei Sì, che vivo ritornò Yes, he returned alive.
Dik rambui hallen madram atei? E noi morire abbiamo? And do we die?
An, onat rambui hallen madram atei Sì, che abbiamo morire. Yes, we die.

See also

Notes and References

  1. [Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro|Hervás y Panduro, Lorenzo]
  2. Nikulin, Andrey V. 2019. The classification of the languages of the South American Lowlands: State-of-the-art and challenges / Классификация языков востока Южной Америки. Illič-Svityč (Nostratic) Seminar / Ностратический семинар, Higher School of Economics, October 17, 2019.