Paraguayan Spanish
E688330
Paraguayan Spanish is the national variety of Spanish spoken in Paraguay, characterized by extensive lexical and grammatical influence from the indigenous Guaraní language.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paraguayan Spanish canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7720013 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paraguayan Spanish Context triple: [Jopara, influencedBy, Paraguayan Spanish]
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A.
Paraguayan guaraní
The Paraguayan guaraní is the official monetary unit of Paraguay, used for all everyday transactions and financial operations in the country.
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B.
Rioplatense Spanish
Rioplatense Spanish is a distinctive variety of Spanish spoken mainly in Argentina and Uruguay, characterized by features like voseo and unique pronunciation patterns shaped in part by Andalusian and Italian influences.
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C.
Bolivian Spanish
Bolivian Spanish is the variety of Spanish spoken in Bolivia, notable for its strong influence from indigenous languages such as Aymara and Quechua, which shape its vocabulary, pronunciation, and expressions.
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D.
Andean Spanish
Andean Spanish is a regional variety of the Spanish language spoken in the highland areas of countries such as Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, and northern Chile, characterized by distinctive phonetic, grammatical, and lexical features influenced by indigenous languages like Quechua and Aymara.
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E.
Guaraní
Guaraní is an indigenous South American language of the Tupi–Guaraní family, widely spoken in Paraguay and neighboring countries and notable for its strong cultural and national significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Paraguayan Spanish Target entity description: Paraguayan Spanish is the national variety of Spanish spoken in Paraguay, characterized by extensive lexical and grammatical influence from the indigenous Guaraní language.
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A.
Paraguayan guaraní
The Paraguayan guaraní is the official monetary unit of Paraguay, used for all everyday transactions and financial operations in the country.
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B.
Rioplatense Spanish
Rioplatense Spanish is a distinctive variety of Spanish spoken mainly in Argentina and Uruguay, characterized by features like voseo and unique pronunciation patterns shaped in part by Andalusian and Italian influences.
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C.
Bolivian Spanish
Bolivian Spanish is the variety of Spanish spoken in Bolivia, notable for its strong influence from indigenous languages such as Aymara and Quechua, which shape its vocabulary, pronunciation, and expressions.
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D.
Andean Spanish
Andean Spanish is a regional variety of the Spanish language spoken in the highland areas of countries such as Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, and northern Chile, characterized by distinctive phonetic, grammatical, and lexical features influenced by indigenous languages like Quechua and Aymara.
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E.
Guaraní
Guaraní is an indigenous South American language of the Tupi–Guaraní family, widely spoken in Paraguay and neighboring countries and notable for its strong cultural and national significance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | variety of Spanish ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Paraguayan national identity
ⓘ
bilingual education policies in Paraguay ⓘ |
| belongsTo | Spanish language continuum ⓘ |
| coexistsWith |
Guaraní language
ⓘ
linked to:
Guaraní
|
| country | Paraguay ⓘ |
| differsFrom |
Andean Spanish
ⓘ
Castilian Spanish ⓘ
linked to:
Peninsular Spanish
Mexican Spanish ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Guaraní calques in everyday speech
ⓘ
Guaraní-influenced phonology ⓘ Guaraní-influenced syntax ⓘ code-switching with Guaraní ⓘ extensive lexical borrowing from Guaraní ⓘ frequent sentence-final particles from Guaraní ⓘ strong influence from Jopara ⓘ use of Guaraní discourse markers ⓘ use of diminutives with -ito and -ita ⓘ use of voseo ⓘ |
| hasOfficialStatusIn | Paraguay ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
aspiration or loss of syllable-final /s/ in some speakers
ⓘ
yeísmo ⓘ |
| hasSociolinguisticFeature |
code-mixing known as Jopara
ⓘ
diglossia with Guaraní ⓘ |
| historicalInfluenceFrom |
Jesuit missions in Paraguay
ⓘ
linked to:
Jesuit reductions in Paraguay
Spanish colonization of Paraguay ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Guaraní language
ⓘ
linked to:
Guaraní
|
| ISO639-1Code | es ⓘ |
| ISO639-3Code | spa ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European languages
ⓘ
linked to:
Indo-European language family
Romance languages ⓘ |
| mutuallyIntelligibleWith | other Latin American Spanish varieties ⓘ |
| region | Southern Cone ⓘ |
| spokenIn |
Asunción
ⓘ
Central Department (Paraguay) ⓘ Paraguayan Chaco ⓘ
linked to:
Gran Chaco
|
| standardBasedOn | Rioplatense Spanish ⓘ |
| typicalSpeakersAre | bilingual in Spanish and Guaraní ⓘ |
| usedBy | majority of Paraguay’s population ⓘ |
| usedIn |
education in Paraguay
ⓘ
government in Paraguay ⓘ media in Paraguay ⓘ rural areas of Paraguay ⓘ urban areas of Paraguay ⓘ |
| usesWritingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Paraguayan Spanish Description of subject: Paraguayan Spanish is the national variety of Spanish spoken in Paraguay, characterized by extensive lexical and grammatical influence from the indigenous Guaraní language.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.