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."Pai Tavytera." Script Source. 2011. Retrieved 20 Jan 2012.
Phonology Vowels FrontCentralBackClose Close-mid Open
Six shortened vowels both oral and nasal are heard as /ĭ ɨ̆ ŭ/ and /ĩ̆ ɨ̃̆ ũ̆/.
Consonants LabialAlveolarPost-alveolarPalatalVelarGlottalPlosivevoicelessvoicedFricativeRhoticNasal()Approximant
/ʝ/ can also be heard as an affricate . /b d ʝ ɡ/ may also be prenasalized as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᶮʝ, ᵑɡ]. /n/ is heard as before velar consonants.
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External links Paï-Tavytera, Countries and Their Cultures