Kaiwá language
Tupian language spoken in Argentina and Brazil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Kaiwa language (Papua New Guinea).
Kaiwá is a Guarani language spoken by about 18,000 Kaiwá people in Brazil in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul and 510 people in northeastern Argentina. Literacy is 5-10% in Kaiwá and 15–25% in Portuguese. Kaiwá proper is 70% lexically similar with the Pai Tavytera language, and its similarity to its linguistic cousin Guaraní, one of the two national-languages of Paraguay alongside the Spanish language, means it is even sometimes considered mutually intelligible.[1]
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Kaiwá | |
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Kayova | |
Native to | Argentina, Brazil |
Ethnicity | Kaiwá |
Native speakers | 18,000 (2003)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kgk |
Glottolog | kaiw1246 |
ELP | Kaiwá |
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