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<h1 id="article-title" itemprop="name">Paraguay contributes Guarani to the 60 languages in Polyglot Quixote</h1>
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Published October 17, 2014<div itemprop="sourceOrganization" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization"><a target="_blank" itemprop="name" href="http://www.efe.com/">EFE</a></div></div>
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<p>The Polyglot Quixote, an edition of the second part of the
Cervantes' work with its chapters translated into 60 languages, now
includes a section in Guarani, prepared by the Paraguay's Secretariat of
Language Policy at the request of the municipal government of the
Spanish town of El Toboso, its promoter.</p>
<p>The project of the La Mancha municipality, home of the peerless
Dulcinea, the love of Don Quixote's life, seeks to bring together that
number of different languages, including all those spoken in Spain, for
its launch in 2015, meant to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the
publication of the adventures of the legendary knight errant.</p>
<p>The version in Guarani, the official language of Paraguay along with
Spanish, will be Chapter 55 and is "a very faithful, careful
translation," Domingo Aguilera, president of the Academy of the Guarani
Language, told Efe on Thursday.</p>
<p>Aguilera said that when the team of translators found no elements
common to both languages, they used Guarani expressions that transmit
the same idea.</p>
<p>He gave as an example the passage where Don Quixote's squire Sancho
Panza has a grumbling stomach and says it's all the same to him if he
eats carrots or partriges as long as it calms his hunger - which was
replaced by the Guarani expression "tuichaguie ta iro yepe rae," which
roughly translates as "it doesn't matter what it tastes like as long as
there's enough of it."</p>
<p>"Don Quixote of La Mancha," the first to two novels about the last
knight errant, was translated into Guarani by the late Felix Gimenez
Gomez, one of Paraguay's most outstanding poets and writers in that
language.</p>
<p>Some 57 percent of Paraguayans only communicate in that pre-Columbian
language, according to the last national census taken in 1992. EFE</p><p><a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2014/10/17/paraguay-contributes-guarani-to-60-languages-in-polyglot-quixote/">http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2014/10/17/paraguay-contributes-guarani-to-60-languages-in-polyglot-quixote/</a><br></p><p><br></p></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>**************************************<br>N.b.: Listing on the lgpolicy-list is merely intended as a service to its members<br>and implies neither approval, confirmation nor agreement by the owner or sponsor of the list as to the veracity of a message's contents. Members who disagree with a message are encouraged to post a rebuttal, and to write directly to the original sender of any offensive message. A copy of this may be forwarded to this list as well. (H. Schiffman, Moderator)<br><br>For more information about the lgpolicy-list, go to <a href="https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/">https://groups.sas.upenn.edu/mailman/</a><br>listinfo/lgpolicy-list<br>*******************************************
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