Paraguay is the only country in Latin America that has found a way to preserve and protect the official status of an Indigenous language — Guarani — alongside Spanish. Most Paraguayans speak Guaraní as their mother tongue, whether they are of Indigenous descent or not. From the capital, Asuncion, Michael Fox explains how the language has endured.
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