Alternate Names: Avañe’e
Dialects: Jopará (Yopará). One Chiripá speaker , indicated it was bilingualism rather than linguistic closeness that made Paraguayan Guaraní intelligible to him. Jopará is the colloquial form mixed with Spanish , loanwords, used by 90% of the population in Asunción area. Lexical similarity: 80% with Chiriguano ,, 75% with Mbyá ,. A member of macrolanguage Guarani ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 4,650,000 in Paraguay (1995), decreasing. Population total all countries: 4,850,000. 2,500,000 monolinguals (2002 census).
Language Use: 52% of rural Paraguayans bilingual in Guaraní. Home, friends, religion; mixed use: Work, education. All ages. About 60% are bilingual in Spanish [spa]; most in urban areas are bilingual in Spanish.
Language Development: Used extensively in bilingual education. Taught in primary and secondary schools. Poetry. Newspapers. New media. Radio programs. Films. TV. Videos. Dictionary. Grammar. Bible: 1997.
Typology: SVO.
Spoken In: Paraguay
Writing System: Latin
Nation of Origin: Paraguay
Other Comments: Christian (Roman Catholic), Christian (Protestant).