Iyo'wujwa Chorote in Paraguay

Speakers

539

Type

Location

Iyo'wujwa Chorote in Paraguay

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Iyo'wujwa Chorote in Paraguay

Size

539

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
Administrative units of the country
Occidental Region, Departament of Boquerón

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

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

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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

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
Administrative units of the country
Spoken in Manjui communities and in the Department of Boquerón.

Size / Number of users

Number of users

539
Source
census
Year
2012

Users within total population

0.00000
Less than 1% use the language

PROPORTION

0
Source
census, 2012

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

364
68
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2012

Age distribution of users

155
29
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2012

Age distribution of users

20
4
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2012

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

49
51
358
No education
Source

census, 2012

67
33
9
Early childhood education
Source

census, 2012

45
55
152
Primary education
Source

census, 2012

57
43
7
Lower secondary education
Source

census, 2012

100
2
Higher secondary education
Source

census, 2012

Tertiary education
Source

census, 2012

Occupational qualifications

89
11
36
Elementary occupations
Source

census, 2012

Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

census, 2012

Craft and related trades workers
Source

census, 2012

44
56
18
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

census, 2012

Services and sales workers
Source

census, 2012

Clerical support workers
Source

census, 2012

Technicians and associate professionals
Source

census, 2012

Professionals
Source

census, 2012

Managers
Source

census, 2012

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

Less than 50% of users with literacy in the language
Source

census, 2012

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

Functional use in administration

Types of language 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