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Where is the Jopara language spoken?
Jopara is a colloquial form of Guarani spoken in Paraguay (landlocked South American country) which uses a number of Spanish loan words. Its name is from the Guarani word for "mixture."
The majority of Paraguayans, particularly younger ones, speak some form of Jopara.
Speakers of both Guarani and Spanish typically employ a great deal of code-switching between the two languages, hence, why the blending of the two languages is called "Jopara," meaning "mixture." The relative amount of Guarani or Spanish used in speech varies depending upon the birth of the speakers, the place where they speak, with whom they are speaking, the topic of discussion, and how they want their meaning to be interpreted. Generally, the rural and older population tends to use more Guarani, while the urban and younger population uses more Spanish—the rural and older population understands more Guarani and the urban and younger more Spanish.
Guarani is one of the most widely spoken American languages and remains commonly used among the Paraguayan people and neighboring communities, Modern scholarship has shown that Guarani was always the primary language of colonial Paraguay,
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