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Los pueblos del Gran Chaco y sus lenguas, primera parte: Los enlhet-enenlhet del Chaco Paraguayo
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,275

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Ethnic Population

1,474

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El censo de 2002 registra un total de 1474 toba-enenlhet, entre los cuales 1275 declaran hablar su lengua original en el hogar.

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2005

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"Hasta hace poco, muchos varones manejaban, además del castellano, algo de plattdeutsch, pero el uso de esta última lengua decrece marcadamente con las nuevas generaciones. Entre las mujeres, el monolingüismo enenlhet es muy típico." [Until recently, many men used in addition to Spanish some Plattdeutsch, but the use of the latter language is decreasing markedly with the newer generations. Among the women, Enenlhet monolingualism is very typical.]

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2010

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-21.5578,-58.0064

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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,680

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Ethnic Population

2060

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1,680 (2007 R. Perik), decreasing. All women and young children are monolingual. Ethnic population: 2,060 (Crevels 2007). (Unchanged 2016.)

Year of info

2009

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Paraguay;

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Native Speakers Worldwide

1,265

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Ethnic Population

2,273

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Year of info

2012

Location and Context

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Paraguay

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Native Speakers Worldwide

~1,280

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Ethnic Population

2,055

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Paraguay, Chaco region

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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,500

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Other languages used

Guaraní, Spanish

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Most also use Paraguayan Guaraní [gug] (used in school and church). Men are bilingual in Spanish [spa]. All women and young children are monolingual.

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
    2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
  2. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)
    Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)
    http://www.ethnologue.com/
  3. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  4. South America
    Crevels, Mily. 2007. "South America." In Atlas of the World's Endangered Languages, edited by C. Moseley. 103-196. London & New York: Routledge.
  5. Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
    Crevels, Mily. 2012. "Language Endangerment in South America: The Clock Is Ticking." In The Indigenous Languages of South America: A Comprehensive Guide, edited by Hans Henrich Hock et al.. 167-234. Mouton de Gruyter.
  6. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
    Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)
    http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
  7. Los pueblos del Gran Chaco y sus lenguas, primera parte: Los enlhet-enenlhet del Chaco Paraguayo
    Alain Fabre. 2005. "Los Pueblos Del Gran Chaco Y Sus Lenguas, Primera Parte: Los Enlhet-enenlhet Del Chaco Paraguayo." In Diccionario Etnolingüìstico y Güía Bibliográfica de los Pueblos Indígenas Sudamericanos, Online: http://www.ling.fi/Entradas%%20diccionario/Dic=EnlhetEnenlhet.pdf.
    http://www.ling.fi/Entradas%%20diccionario/Dic=EnlhetEnenlhet.pdf