Güenoa language

Güenoa (Minuan)^[1] is a sparsely documented, extinct Charruan language once spoken in Uruguay and Argentina.

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Güenoa
Minuan
Native to	Uruguay, Argentina
Ethnicity	Güenoa, Minuane
Era	attested 1787
Language family	Charruan Güenoa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	`guen1235`
Güenoa

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Güenoa is known from a short 18th-century catechesis quoted by Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro in Italian.^[2]^[3] The text sample below, originally from Hervás y Panduro (1787: 229), has been reproduced from Vignati (1940).^[4]

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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.

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