| Pãi Tavyterã | |
| Nativename: | Ava, Pãi, Tavyterã |
| States: | Paraguay |
| Ethnicity: | 8,030 Pai Tavytera people (2007) |
| Speakers: | 600 |
| Date: | 2007 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Tupian |
| Fam2: | Tupí–Guaraní |
| Iso3: | pta |
| Glotto: | pait1247 |
| Glottorefname: | Pai Tavytera |
Pãi Tavyterã is a Guarani language spoken by about 600 Pai Tavytera people in eastern Paraguay, in Amambay, eastern Concepción, eastern San Pedro, and northern Canindeyú Departments. The language has 70% lexical similarity with the Kaiwá language, spoken in Brazil. Among Pai Tavyetera people, language use is shifting towards Guaraní.
The language is written in the Latin script.[1]
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | |
| Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ pronounced as /link/ |
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | ||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||