Talk:Languages of Paraguay

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Impossible statistic[edit]

Previous version said: Spanish is spoken by about 87% of the population, while Guaraní is spoken by more than 90%, with about 4,650,000 speakers. 52% of rural Paraguayans are monolingual in Guaraní.^[1] 73% of the population is bilingual in both languages, while only 27% is monolingual either in Spanish or in Guaraní.^{[citation needed]}

This is mathematically impossible. If 87% speak Spanish and 90% speak Guarani, then at an absolute minimum 77% speak both languages.

Ordinary Person (talk) 05:41, 2 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Paraguayan Guaraní, Ethnologue

The current version ("Spanish is spoken by about 87% of the population, […] 52% of rural Paraguayans exclusively speak Guaraní") is impossible too, since it would only allow no more than 25% of Paraguay's population to be rural, when in reality it's closer to 40%. --Lazar Taxon (talk) 04:10, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Spanish Translation[edit]

I've translated the introduction of the Spanish page and carried over references. I altered the figures for Spanish and Guaraní speaking populations since the Spanish version is much more extensive. I also changed the article's status from stub to start. Jackofthejungle (talk) 18:44, 22 August 2021 (UTC)Jackofthejungle[reply]

[ethnologue-list-1] Paraguayan Guaraní, Ethnologue

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