Guaraní, Paraguayan
A language of Paraguay
| Population | 4,650,000 in Paraguay (1995). Population total all countries: 4,850,000. |
| Region | Also in Argentina. |
| Alternate names | Avañe’e |
| Dialects | Jopará (Yopará). One Chiripá speaker [nhd] 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 Asunción area. Lexical similarity: 80% with Chiriguano [gui] and 75% lexical similarity with Mbyá [gun]. |
| Classification | Tupi, Tupi-Guarani, Subgroup I A member of macrolanguage Guarani [grn] (Paraguay). |
| Language use | Official language. 52% of rural Paraguayans monolingual in Guaraní. Used extensively in bilingual education. All ages. |
| Language development | Taught in primary and secondary schools. Bible: 1997. |
| Writing system | Latin script. |
| Comments | SVO. |
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