Pai Tavytera language
Pai Tavytera | |
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Ava, Pai, Tavytera | |
Native to | Paraguay |
Ethnicity | 8,030 Pai Tavytera people (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 600 (2007)[1] |
Tupian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
pta |
Glottolog |
pait1247 [2] |
Pai Tavytera is a Guarani language spoken by about 600 Pai Tavytera people in eastern Paraguay, in Amambay, eastern Concepción, eastern San Pedro, and northern Canindeyú Departments. The language has 70% lexical similarity with the Kaiwá language, spoken in Brazil. Among Pai Tavyetera people, language use is shifting towards Guaraní.[1]
The language is written in the Latin script.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Pai Tavytera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pai Tavytera". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ "Pai Tavytera." Script Source. 2011. Retrieved 20 Jan 2012.
External links
- Paï-Tavytera, Countries and Their Cultures
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