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2,057

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Language Information By Source

Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

2,057

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Ethnic Population

3,065

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Argentina: 1,692 speakers, 2,613 ethnic population. Paraguay: 365 speakers, 452 ethnic population.

Year of info

2012

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2,000

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Follows Ethnologue in distinguishing two Chorote languages: 800 speakers for crt and 1200 for crq.

Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Argentina; Paraguay;

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-24.287, -60.3808

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Native Speakers Worldwide

2,838

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Ethnologue distinguishes two Chorote languages: Chorote, Iyojwa’ja [crt], and Chorote, Iyo’wujwa [crq]. Others have only one. Iyo’wujwa [crt]: 2,038 speakers. Iyojwa’ja [crq]: 800.

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Argentina; Paraguay; Bolivia;

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Iyojwa’ja: 1,500 Argentina, 8 Bolivia, 430 Paraguay, 2,038 total. Iyojwa’ja: 800 Argentina.

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Iyojwa’ja: 1,500 Argentina, 8 Bolivia, 430 Paraguay, 2,038 total. Iyojwa’ja: 800 Argentina.

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Native Speakers Worldwide

2950

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Ethnic Population

2000

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Ethnologue distinguished 2 Chorote languages: Chorote, Iyojwa’ja [crt]: 800 (Crevels 2007). Chorote, Iyo’wujwa [crq]: 2150 (Ethnologue counts the ethnic population of both [crt] and [crq] at 2000 (2007) (inconsistent with the number of speakers).

Year of info

2016

Location and Context

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Paraguay, Argentina

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Ethnic Population

230 in Paraguay, 2,000 in Argentina

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It is not known how many speakers of Chorote there are in the ethnic group of 2,000 persons in Argentina. In Paraguay, the language is to be considered seriously endangered, even though all of the approximately 230 members of the ethnic group speak the language.

Year of info

2007

Location and Context

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Paraguay and Argentina

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PARAGUAY: in the border area between Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia, Department of Boqueron, District of Pedro P. Pena. ARGENTINA: in the Province of Salta, departments of Rivadavia and San Martın.

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PARAGUAY: in the border area between Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia, Department of Boqueron, District of Pedro P. Pena. ARGENTINA: in the Province of Salta, departments of Rivadavia and San Martın.

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"The Chorote, who are nomadic hunter-gatherers and fishermen, used to occupy much bigger parts of the Central and Southern Chaco, but they were probably pushed to the northwest by Guaicuruan groups that at their turn were displaced by the Spaniards." In Paraguay "there were bands of uncontacted [Chorote] until well into the 1970s."

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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. 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
  4. World Oral Literature Project
    "World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.
    http://www.oralliterature.org
  5. 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.
  6. Lengua chorote (mataguayo): Estudio fonológico y morfosintáctico