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Pai Tavytera language

Pai Tavytera language

Guarani language spoken in Paraguay

Pãi Tavyterã 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]

Quick Facts Pãi Tavyterã, Native to ...

The language is written in the Latin script.[2]

Phonology

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...
  • Six shortened vowels both oral and nasal are heard as /ĭ ɨ̆ ŭ/ and /ĩ̆ ɨ̃̆ ũ̆/.

Consonants

More information Labial, Alveolar ...
  • /ʝ/ can also be heard as an affricate [ɟʝ].
  • /b d ʝ ɡ/ may also be prenasalized as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᶮʝ, ᵑɡ].
  • /n/ is heard as [ŋ] before velar consonants.[3]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Pãi Tavyterã at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    "Pai Tavytera." Script Source. 2011. Retrieved 20 Jan 2012.
  3. [3]
    Escobar-Imlach, Celeste Mariana (2017). Aspectos fónicos, fonológicos y morfofonológicos del pai tavytera guaraní. México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.


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