Tupian · ISO 639-3 gug
Paraguayan Guaraní Language
Paraguayan Guaraní is a Tupian language spoken by about 4.9 million people in 1 country. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Paraguayan Guaraní is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
Countries that speak Paraguayan Guaraní
Language family
- Tupian
- Eastern Tupian
- Maweti-Guarani
- Aweti-Guarani
- Tupi-Guarani
- Southern Tupi-Guarani
- Tupi-Guarani Subgroup I
- Tupi-Guarani Subgroup I.A
- Paraguay-Brazil Guarani
- Paraguayan Guaraní
Writing system
Latin script
About the Paraguayan Guaraní language
Paraguayan Guaraní is spoken by about 4.9 million people, which makes it the 190th most spoken language in the world — just behind Sicilian (5.0 million) and ahead of Balinese (4.8 million). It belongs to the Tupian language family and, more precisely, to the Paraguay-Brazil Guarani group within the Maweti-Guarani branch.
Where is Paraguayan Guaraní spoken?
Paraguayan Guaraní is used in 1 country. The largest communities live in Paraguay (4.8 million). More than half of the population speaks it in Paraguay — the places where travellers will hear it everywhere.
Paraguayan Guaraní is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Paraguayan Guaraní is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 gug.
Frequently asked questions about Paraguayan Guaraní
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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.