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Where is Tapieté spoken?

Tapieté is a Tupian language, spoken in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. The outlined area on the map shows where.

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Where Tapieté is spoken

Tapieté is spoken in 3 countries: Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay.

Country
Argentina
Bolivia
Paraguay

On the map, Tapieté is drawn as an area from Vuillermet 2012 (Bolivian Amazonia). The area was digitised by the Glottography project (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18643875), and the atlas is cited on the data sources page. Language areas are generalisations, and cities and borderlands are multilingual, so the outline does not mean that everyone inside it speaks Tapieté.

How many people speak Tapieté?

Wikidata holds no speaker count for this language.

Status: Shifting. Glottolog lists it as shifting: the youngest speakers are adults, and children are growing up speaking another language.

Where Tapieté sits in the language family tree

Glottolog classifies Tapieté as follows, from the largest family down to the language itself.

  1. Tupian
  2. Eastern Tupian
  3. Maweti-Guarani
  4. Aweti-Guarani
  5. Tupi-Guarani
  6. Southern Tupi-Guarani
  7. Tupi-Guarani Subgroup I
  8. Tupi-Guarani Subgroup I.B
  9. Chiriguanic
  10. Tapieté

Related languages

Other languages in the Chiriguanic group:

More about Tapieté

Codes: ISO 639-3 tpj, Glottolog tapi1253. Glottolog macroarea: South America.

Questions about Tapieté

Where is Tapieté spoken?

Tapieté is spoken in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. On the map it is shown as an area from Vuillermet 2012 (Bolivian Amazonia).

Which language family is Tapieté in?

Glottolog places Tapieté in the Tupian family, in the branch Eastern Tupian, Maweti-Guarani, Aweti-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani, Southern Tupi-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani Subgroup I, Tupi-Guarani Subgroup I.B and Chiriguanic.

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