Guarani Language - History

History

GuaranĂ­ persisted with enough vigor to be made official because the Jesuits elected it as the language to preach Roman Catholicism to the Indians (GuaranĂ­ was the language of the autonomous Jesuit Reducciones) and because Paraguay's dictators for a time shut the country's borders and thereby protected the local culture and language.

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