Did You Know These Five Animals Have a Guarani Name?

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Guaraní is a language spoken by millions of people in Paraguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Brazil. And as it has lived with Spanish since colonial times, many Guaraní terms were incorporated into the language of European origin. Such is the case of certain animals from South America, but also of words such as "tereré", "anana" or "tapioca." Some of these names arose because the first colonizers did not know those animals and adopted the way in which…