Pai Tavytera language

Pãi Tavyterã
Ava, Pãi, Tavyterã
Native toParaguay
Ethnicity8,030 Pai Tavytera people (2007)
Native speakers
600 (2007)
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3pta
Glottologpait1247

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 Departments. 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

Front Central Back
Close i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
Close-mid e ẽ o õ
Open a ã
  • Six shortened vowels both oral and nasal are heard as /ĭ ɨ̆ ŭ/ and /ĩ̆ ɨ̃̆ ũ̆/.

Consonants

Labial Alveolar Post-
alveolar 		Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɡ
Fricative s ʃ ʝ h
Rhotic ɾ
Nasal m n ɲ (ŋ)
Approximant ʋ l w
  • /ʝ/ can also be heard as an affricate [ɟʝ].
  • /b d ʝ ɡ/ may also be prenasalized as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᶮʝ, ᵑɡ].
  • /n/ is heard as [ŋ] before velar consonants.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Pãi Tavyterã at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "Pai Tavytera." Script Source. 2011. Retrieved 20 Jan 2012.
  3. ^ Escobar-Imlach, Celeste Mariana (2017). Aspectos fónicos, fonológicos y morfofonológicos del pai tavytera guaraní. México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social.


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