Other Languages
About 50,000 Paraguayans speak an indigenous language besides Guaraní:
- Aché language
- Ayoreo language
- Chamacoco language
- Iyo'wujwa Chorote language
- Guana language
- Lengua language
- Maka language
- Nivaclé language
- Ñandeva language
- Pai Tavytera language
- Sanapaná language
- Toba Qom language
- Toba-Maskoy language
Maskoy Pidgin is a Mascoian-based pidgin language.
Besides Spanish, Guaraní and all other previous languages, Plautdietsch, Standard German and Italian are spoken as well.
Emok is an extinct language of Paraguay.
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