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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 .
The language is written in the Latin script .
Phonology
Vowels
Six shortened vowels both oral and nasal are heard as /ĭ ɨ̆ ŭ/ and /ĩ̆ ɨ̃̆ ũ̆/. Consonants
/ʝ/ can also be heard as an affricate [ɟʝ ].
/b d ʝ ɡ/ may also be prenasalized as .
/n/ is heard as [ŋ ] before velar consonants. Notes
^ Pãi Tavyterã at Ethnologue
"Pai Tavytera." Script Source. 2011. Retrieved 20 Jan 2012.
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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