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4 rememberers

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Temporal Predicative Particles in Sanapaná and the Enlhet-Enenlhet Language Family (Paraguay): Descriptive and Comparative Study
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Critically Endangered

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4 rememberers

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Ethnic Population

393

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"According to Han- nes Kalisch (p.c. 2017), the situation is even worse: he found only 4 living rememberers of the language, rendering Guaná effectively moribund."

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2017

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Paraguay

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28

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28 (Crevels 2007). Ethnic population: 84 (Crevels 2007). (Unchanged 2016.)

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2009

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Paraguay;

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Guaraní, Spanish

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"la gran mayoría ya habla una variedad del guaraní paraguayo". [A large majority now speak a variety of Paraguayan Guaraní.]

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29

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258

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2012

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Paraguay

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19

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242

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"El censo de 2002 proporciona una cifra de 242 guaná, de los cuales sólo 19 utilizan su lengua en el hogar." [The 2002 census gives a figure of 242 Guana, of whom only 19 use their language at home.]

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2005

Location and Context

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Paraguay

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Depto. de Concepción; Ángulo sudeste del depto. Alto Paraguay, distrito La Victoria; Ángulo noroeste del depto. Pte. Hayes, distrito del mismo nombre;

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Depto. de Concepción; Ángulo sudeste del depto. Alto Paraguay, distrito La Victoria; Ángulo noroeste del depto. Pte. Hayes, distrito del mismo nombre;

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Guaraní paraguayo, Spanish

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~28

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~84

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The majority of the Guana group speaks a variety of Paraguayan Guarni.

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Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Paraguay

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Paraguay, Department of Concepcion, District of San Lazaro, in Valle Mi on the banks of the Apa River, Department of Alto Paraguay, on the Riacho Mosquito.

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Paraguay, Department of Concepcion, District of San Lazaro, in Valle Mi on the banks of the Apa River, Department of Alto Paraguay, on the Riacho Mosquito.

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Spanish and Paraguayan Guarni

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2005

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Paraguay

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-22.0,-58.0

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55

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