Lumnanas Indians  Indigenous Paraguay is a website that is
dedicated to looking at the various native tribes of Paraguay.
Paraguay has been heavily influenced by the native culture
Guarani tribes. The language is alive in everyday Paraguayan
speech and Paraguay was also the first country in the Americas
to add an indigenous language as its official language in the
constitution. This is very interesting because in countries such
as Guatemala, Bolivia, or Peru where speakers of an indigenous
language are numbered in the millions, the speakers are
predominantly people of pure native blood, Paraguay ,on the
other hand, is also the only country where the majority of
speakers are people of native language are in fact of half or
less of indigenous decent, or with no native blood at all.
Paraguay's has 17 different tribes all put into five different
language families. The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered
Languages listed Paraugay as a language hotspot because of the
enormous language diversity in such a small