Language · ISO 639-3 grn · gn
Guarani Language avañeʼẽ
Guarani is a language spoken by about 5.9 million people in 4 countries. It is an official language of Paraguay. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Guarani is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Guarani language
Guarani (avañeʼẽ) is spoken by about 5.9 million people.
Where is Guarani spoken?
Guarani is used in 4 countries. The largest communities live in Paraguay (5.2 million), Bolivia (55,404), Brazil (37,300) and Argentina (22,087). More than half of the population speaks it in Paraguay — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Share of the population that speaks Guarani: Paraguay 69% (5.2 million), Bolivia 0.5% (55,404), Brazil <0.1% (37,300) and Argentina <0.1% (22,087).
Guarani is an official language in 1 country: Paraguay.
Writing system and status
Guarani is written in the Latin script.
ISO codes: ISO 639-1 gn, ISO 639-3 grn.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.