LOMA GRANDE, Paraguay (AP) — When it came time to choose a wedding venue, Margarita Gayoso and her partner Christian Ojeda knew exactly where they wanted to go. Despite living in Spain, the couple ...

A Spanish-born Jesuit who dedicated his life to the study of Paraguay's Guarani people died one day shy of his 87th birthday. Jesuit Fr. Bartomeu Melia, linguist, poet and anthropologist, lived in ...

ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay — When she was a student in Paraguay, teachers forced her to kneel on jagged granules of salt and maize for entire mornings as punishment for speaking her mother tongue, Guaraní, in ...

Guaraní is one of Paraguay’s two official languages alongside Spanish. It is spoken by millions, yet its use remains mostly oral. Linguists warn fluency among younger generations is slipping. While ...

Why Guaraní remains at the heart of Paraguay Of the country’s 6.9 million people, about 1.6 million reported Guaraní as their main language, according to Paraguay’s official 2024 data. Whereas, 1.5 ...