The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000).
It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue.
| Population | 4,648,000 in Paraguay (1995), 95% of the population. Population total both countries 5,000,000 (1999 WA). |
| Region | Also spoken in Argentina. |
| Alternate names | AVAÑE'E |
| Dialects | JOPARÁ (YOPARÁ). |
| Classification | Tupi, Tupi-Guarani, Guarani (I). |
| Comments | One speaker of Chiripá indicated it was bilingualism rather than linguistic closeness that made Paraguayan Guaraní intelligible to him. Jopará is the colloquial form mixed with Spanish loanwords, used by 90% of the population in and around Asunción. 80% lexical similarity with Chiriguano and 75% lexical similarity with Mbyá. 52% of rural Paraguayans are monolingual in Guaraní. Used some in education. National language. SVO. Bible 1997. |
