Iyo'wujwa Chorote

Iyo'wujwa
Chorote
Spoken in Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia
Native speakers 2,008  (date missing)
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 crq

Iyo'wujwa (Chorote) is a Mataco language spoken by about 2,000 people, mostly in Argentina where it is spoken by about 1,500 people; 50% of whom are monolingual.

Alternate names include: Choroti, Manjuy, and Manjui.

There are about 500 speakers in Paraguay and 8 in Bolivia. The speakers of this language in Paraguay only refer to themselves as Manjui or Inkijwas. They refer to those residing in Argentina as the Iyo'wujwas.

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