ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — When she was a student in Paraguay, teachers forced her to kneel on jagged granules of salt and maize for entire mornings as punishment for speaking her mother tongue, Guaraní, in ...

LOMA GRANDE, Paraguay — When it came time to choose a wedding venue, Margarita Gayoso and her partner Christian Ojeda knew exactly where they wanted to go. Despite living in Spain, the couple traveled ...

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguayans can now navigate social media, post and poke in their country's main indigenous language following the launch of a Guarani version of Facebook. The version with ...

Marking another anniversary of the enacting of Paraguay's Constitution of 1967 which declared it as the country's second official language, local authorities Thursday celebrated one new episode of ...

Globalization usually means the displacement of local and indigenous languages by the newer tongues of political and cultural hegemony—English, Spanish, or French. One significant exception to this ...

A pedestrian walks past a mural that says in the Guarani language "pueblo okue, Paraguay ñanemba'e" which means "People are moving. Paraguay is ours" in Asuncion, Friday, Aug. 22, 2025.

Why Guaraní remains at the heart of Paraguay Of the country’s 6.9 million people, about 1.6 million reported Guaraní as their main language, according to Paraguay’s official 2024 data. Whereas, 1.5 ...

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