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GUARANIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 652 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUARANIS , a tribe and stock of See also:

South See also:American See also:Indians, having their See also:home in See also:Paraguay, See also:Uruguay and on the Brazilian See also:coast. The Guaranis had See also:developed some See also:civilization before the arrival of the Spaniards, and being a peaceable See also:people quickly submitted. They See also:form to-See also:day the See also:chief See also:element in the populations of Paraguay and Uruguay. Owing to its patronage by the Jesuit missionaries the Guarani See also:language became a widespread See also:medium of communication, and in a corrupted form is still the See also:common language in Paraguay.

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