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 Department
Canindeyú () is a department in Paraguay. The capital is the city of Salto del Guairá.
Canindeyú comes from the Guarani words Kaninde - macaw; ju - yellow, blue-and-yellow macaw (''Ara ararauna'').
Districts
The department is divided in 1 ...
s. 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 .
*/b d ʝ ɡ/ may also be prenasalized as ��b, ⁿd, ᶮʝ, ᵑɡ
* /n/ is heard as before velar consonants.
Notes
External links
Paï-Tavytera
Countries and Their Cultures
Languages of Paraguay
Guarani languages
{{tupian-lang-stub