Kaiwá Guaraní

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Kaiwá Guaraní is an indigenous Guaraní language spoken primarily by the Kaiwá people in parts of Brazil and Paraguay, belonging to the Tupi–Guaraní language family.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Kaiowá Guaraní 1

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
Guaraní language
indigenous language
belongsToMacroArea South American lowlands NERFINISHED
closelyRelatedTo Mbyá Guaraní NERFINISHED
Nhandeva Guaraní NERFINISHED
Paraguayan Guaraní NERFINISHED
ethnicGroupAssociated Guaraní peoples NERFINISHED
geneticClassification Tupian language family NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Kaiwá NERFINISHED
Paĩ-Kaiwá NERFINISHED
Paĩ-Tavyterã NERFINISHED
hasBasicWordOrder SOV and SVO
hasDialect Kaiwá (Brazil) dialect
Paĩ-Tavyterã (Paraguay) dialect
hasGrammaticalFeature active–stative alignment tendencies
person marking on verbs
postpositions rather than prepositions
rich verbal morphology
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic tendencies
hasMorphologyType agglutinative language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive oral and nasal vowels
nasal harmony
hasStatus vulnerable language
isIndigenousTo South America NERFINISHED
isMinorityLanguageIn Brazil NERFINISHED
Paraguay NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code kgk
isOralTraditionDominant true
languageBranch Guaraní NERFINISHED
languageFamily Tupi–Guaraní NERFINISHED
partOf Guaraní language cluster NERFINISHED
region Mato Grosso do Sul NERFINISHED
Paraguayan–Brazilian border area
spokenBy Kaiwá people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Brazil NERFINISHED
Paraguay NERFINISHED
subclassOf Tupi–Guaraní language family NERFINISHED
subjectOf anthropological studies on Kaiwá culture
linguistic documentation projects in Brazil
usedBy indigenous communities in Mato Grosso do Sul
usedIn oral storytelling of Kaiwá people
traditional rituals of Kaiwá people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tupi–Guaraní hasLanguage Kaiwá Guaraní
Ava Guaraní isDistinctFrom Kaiwá Guaraní
this entity surface form: Kaiowá Guaraní