Standard Spanish in Paraguay

Speakers

1,651,841

Type

Location

Standard Spanish in Paraguay

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Standard Spanish in Paraguay

Size

1,651,841

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
No

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

Digital
Yes

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban

Size / Number of users

Number of users

1651841
Source
census
Year
2017

Users within total population

24.00000
Less than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

24
Source
census, 2017

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

1,161,004
70
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2017

Age distribution of users

432,454
26
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2017

Age distribution of users

58,383
4
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2017

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

45
55
48,539
No education
Source

census, 2017

51
49
94,066
Early childhood education
Source

census, 2017

48
52
499,475
Primary education
Source

census, 2017

53
47
227,733
Lower secondary education
Source

census, 2017

50
50
521,138
Higher secondary education
Source

census, 2017

34
66
114,474
Tertiary education
Source

census, 2017

Occupational qualifications

46
54
117,315
Elementary occupations
Source

census, 2017

96
4
41,420
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

census, 2017

84
16
113,531
Craft and related trades workers
Source

census, 2017

78
22
21,220
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

census, 2017

37
63
185,644
Services and sales workers
Source

census, 2017

49
51
70,603
Clerical support workers
Source

census, 2017

55
45
118,201
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

census, 2017

33
67
105,464
Professionals
Source

census, 2017

63
37
65,604
Managers
Source

census, 2017

Language competence

Language not used
Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some
Understand all, speak/sign well
Understand all, speak/sign fluently

Literacy of users

(Almost) 100 % of users with literacy in the language
Source

census, 2017

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
exclusive

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Language use in the legal system
  • General use
  • Legal transactions
  • Court proceedings
  • Written submissions
  • Spoken/signed testimonies
  • Language not used

Completion