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.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kaiowá Guaraní 1
Kaiwá Guaraní canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf American indigenous language
Guaraní language
indigenous language
belongsToMacroArea South American lowlands
closelyRelatedTo Mbyá Guaraní
linked to: Mbyá Guarani

Nhandeva Guaraní
linked to: Ñandeva Guarani

Paraguayan Guaraní
linked to: Guaraní
ethnicGroupAssociated Guaraní peoples
linked to: Guarani peoples
geneticClassification Tupian language family
linked to: Tupian languages
hasAlternativeName Kaiwá
Paĩ-Kaiwá
Paĩ-Tavyterã
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
isMinorityLanguageIn Brazil
Paraguay
ISO639-3Code kgk
isOralTraditionDominant true
languageBranch Guaraní
languageFamily Tupi–Guaraní
partOf Guaraní language cluster
linked to: Guaraní
region Mato Grosso do Sul
Paraguayan–Brazilian border area
spokenBy Kaiwá people
spokenIn Brazil
Paraguay
subclassOf Tupi–Guaraní language family
linked to: Tupi–Guaraní
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 script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

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

Tupi–Guaraní hasLanguage Kaiwá Guaraní
Ava Guaraní isDistinctFrom Kaiowá Guaraní
linked to: Kaiwá Guaraní