Paraguayan Guaraní in Paraguay

Speakers

2,484,927

Type

Location

Paraguayan Guaraní in Paraguay

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Paraguayan Guaraní in Paraguay

Size

2,484,927

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

divider

Video

Digital
Yes

divider

Audio

Digital
Yes

divider

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

2484927
Source
census
Year
2017

Users within total population

36.00000
Less than 50% use the language

PROPORTION

36
Source
census, 2017

Users within the reference community

Age distribution of users

1,720,816
69
percentage of members of middle generations (15-65)
Source

census, 2017

Age distribution of users

542,690
22
percentage of members of young generations (< 15)
Source

census, 2017

Age distribution of users

221,421
9
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

census, 2017

Generational use

All generations

Educational attainment

43
57
144,883
No education
Source

census, 2017

58
42
76,867
Early childhood education
Source

census, 2017

53
47
1,663,603
Primary education
Source

census, 2017

56
44
282,962
Lower secondary education
Source

census, 2017

58
42
257,602
Higher secondary education
Source

census, 2017

46
54
44,024
Tertiary education
Source

census, 2017

Occupational qualifications

66
34
341,194
Elementary occupations
Source

census, 2017

98
2
49,544
Plant and machine operators and assemblers
Source

census, 2017

87
13
183,547
Craft and related trades workers
Source

census, 2017

66
34
473,547
Skilled agricultural, forestry and fishery workers
Source

census, 2017

38
62
203,395
Services and sales workers
Source

census, 2017

54
46
16,051
Clerical support workers
Source

census, 2017

78
22
19,801
Technicians and associate professionals
Source

census, 2017

40
60
23,209
Professionals
Source

census, 2017

76
24
12,759
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

More than 50% 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
complementary
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Stability
Increasing
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Stability
Increasing

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