Iyo'wujwa | |
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Chorote | |
Spoken in | Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia |
Native speakers | 2,008 (date missing) |
Language family |
Mataco–Guaicuru ?
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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.