Kaiwá
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| Kaiwá | ||
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| Spoken in: | Argentina, Brazil | |
| Total speakers: | 15,512 | |
| Language family: | Kaiwá |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | kgk | |
| ISO 639-3: | kgk | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Kaiwá is a Tupi language spoken by about 15,000 in Brazil in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, and also 512 in Argentina. Literacy is 5-10% in Kaiwá and 15-25% in Portuguese. It is 70% lexically similar with Pai Tavytera, and is somewhat intelligible with Guaraní.
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