How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language

How one South American country has held on to its Indigenous language

If you walk down the street in Paraguay, you will hear people speaking Spanish, the official language of most of the countries of Latin America. But, particularly if you are in the countryside, you will also hear something else: Guaraní. It’s one of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in the Americas. A mother tongue of roughly six and half million people—in particular, in Paraguay. There, most Paraguayans speak Guaraní or a mixture of G…