De la política de la lengua a la lengua de la política. Cartas guaraníes en la transición de la colonia a la era independiente

This article presents a corpus of Guarani sources of the Jesuit reductions of Paraguay, most of them written by indigenous leaders. Documents cover the period 1768-1831, that is to say, from the date of the Jesuits´ expulsion to the moment of dissolution of the most part of the reductions during revolution. The transcribed documents in their Guarani and Spanish versions refer to a fundamental period of transition, allowing the analysis of the role played by the Indians in the revolutionary process and the tranformations of their language (their writing) and their political discourse.