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

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Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where a Native American language has resisted assimilation into Spanish or Portuguese. This is episode 49 of Stories of Resistance.

Find Stories of Resistance wherever you get your podcasts... ...sign up for text updates , or go all-in with the TRNN newsletter: Sign up 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 Guaraní and Sp

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

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