Pai Tavytera language

Pai Tavytera
Ava, Pai, Tavytera
Native to Paraguay
Ethnicity 8,030 Pai Tavytera people (2007)[1]
Native speakers
600  (2007)[1]
Tupian
  • Tupí–Guaraní

    • Pai Tavytera
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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Pai Tavytera at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Pai Tavytera". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. "Pai Tavytera." Script Source. 2011. Retrieved 20 Jan 2012.

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