Editing Guarani language (section)

=== Political status ===
[[File:Sign in Guaraní and Spanish in Asunción.jpg|thumb|A government sign in [[Asunción]], Paraguay; bilingual in Guarani and Spanish]]
{{See also|Languages of Paraguay}}
Widely spoken, Paraguayan Guarani has nevertheless been repressed by Paraguayan governments throughout most of its history since independence. It was prohibited in state schools for over 100 years. However, populists often used pride in the language to excite nationalistic fervor and promote a narrative of social unity.{{Citation needed|date=September 2024}}

During the autocratic regime of [[Alfredo Stroessner]], his Colorado Party used the language to appeal to common Paraguayans although Stroessner himself never gave an address in Guarani.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nickson |first1=Robert Andrew |s2cid=144250960 |title=Governance and the Revitalization of the Guaraní Language in Paraguay|journal=[[Latin American Research Review]] |date=2009 |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=3–26 |doi=10.1353/lar.0.0115 |jstor=40783668 |language=en}}</ref> Upon [[History of Paraguay#Modern Paraguay|the advent of Paraguayan democracy]] in 1992, Guarani was established in the new constitution as a language equal to Spanish.<ref name="SimonRomero"/>

Jopará, the mixture of Spanish and Guarani, is spoken by an estimated 90% of the population of Paraguay. [[Code-switching]] between the two languages takes place on a spectrum in which more Spanish is used for official and business-related matters, and more Guarani is used in art and in everyday life.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://linguistics.byu.edu/classes/Ling450ch/reports/Guarani1.html |title= Guaraní: The Language and People |last= Page |first= Nathan |date= 6 September 1999 |website= [[Brigham Young University]] Department of Linguistics |access-date= 1 February 2019}}</ref>

Guarani is also an official language of Bolivia and of [[Corrientes Province]] in Argentina.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Guarani |url=http://languagesgulper.com/eng/Guarani.html |access-date=2025-01-22 |website=languagesgulper.com}}</ref>