| Pãi Tavyterã | |
|---|---|
| Ava, Pãi, Tavyterã | |
| Native to | Paraguay |
| Ethnicity | 8,030Pai Tavytera people (2007)[1] |
Native speakers | 600 (2007)[1] |
Tupian
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pta |
| Glottolog | pait1247 |
Pãi Tavyterã is aGuarani language spoken by about 600Pai Tavytera people in easternParaguay, inAmambay, easternConcepción, easternSan Pedro, and northernCanindeyú Departments. The language has 70% lexical similarity with theKaiwá language, spoken inBrazil. Among Pai Tavyetera people, language use is shifting towardsGuaraní.[1]
The language is written in theLatin script.[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | iĩ | ɨɨ̃ | uũ |
| Close-mid | eẽ | oõ | |
| Open | aã |
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||
| Fricative | s | ʃ | ʝ | h | |||
| Rhotic | ɾ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | (ŋ) | |||
| Approximant | ʋ | l | w | ||||
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