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1. Guaraní

Morphological Typology

Guaraní is a highly agglutinative, polysynthetic language.

Basic Information

• Location: Mostly spoken in Paraguay, but also spoken in parts of Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil.
• Number of native speakers: 4,850,000 worldwide (4,650,000 in Paraguay)
• iso: gug
• Orthography: Latin script, largely phonemic
• Current Status: Guaraní, along with Spanish, is one of the official languages of Paraguay. It is an indigenous language spoken by the majority of the population. There are approximately 2,500,000 monolingual speakers of Guaraní. It is used extensively in bilingual education (still taught in many schools).

Text availability

There appears to be plenty of text available for Guaraní, including a Bible translation.