Kaiwá

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Kaiwá
Spoken in: Argentina, Brazil
Total speakers: 15,512
Language family:
 Kaiwá
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: kgk
ISO 639-3: kgk
Extent of the Kaiwá language in the northeast Argentine panhandle shown in teal.
Extent of the Kaiwá language in the northeast Argentine panhandle shown in teal.

Kaiwá is a Tupi language spoken by about 15,000 in Brazil in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and also 512 in Argentina. Literacy is 5-10% in Kaiwá and 15-25% in Portuguese. It is 70% lexically similar with Pai Tavytera, and is somewhat intelligible with Guaraní.

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