هناك لغتان رسميتان في باراجواي، وهما [[اللغة الإسبانية|الأسبانية]] و[[غوارانية|الغوارانية]]. فالأسبانية هي اللغة المستخدمة في المدارس، وفي الدوائر الحكومية، وفي التجارة. إلا أن الشعب في جميع أنحاء باراجواي، يستخدم بصورة عامة اللغة الغوارانية في الحديث اليومي. أما الكتب، والصحف اليومية والمجلات فتصدر بكلتا اللغتين.<ref>{{استشهاد بخبر | عنوان= Background Note: Paraguay | ناشر=U.S. State Department | مسار =http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1841.htm | مسار أرشيف =https://web.archive.org/web/20110601071053/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/1841.htm | تاريخ أرشيف =1 June 2011 | تاريخ الوصول = 27 February 2008| وصلة مكسورة = yesno }}</ref><ref>{{مرجع ويب|عنوان=A Country Study: Paraguay|مسار=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/pytoc.html|عمل=Country Studies|ناشر=Library of Congress|تاريخ الوصول=23 September 2013|مؤلف=Federal Research Division|وصلة مؤلف=Federal Research Division|مكان=Society|تاريخ=December 1988|اقتباس='''Population:''' 1988 population estimates ranged from 4 to 4.4 million; rate of annual growth estimated at from 2.5 to 2.9 percent in the late 1980s. <br /> '''Education and Literacy:''' Compulsory attendance to age fourteen or completion of six-year primary level. Three-year secondary education programs offered in humanities or technical training. University studies available through two institutions, one state-sponsored and the other operated by the Roman Catholic Church. Official literacy rate estimated at over 80 percent in the mid-1980s. <br /> '''Health:''' Most people had ready access to medical care of some kind; nonetheless, system's overall effectiveness limited by inadequate funding, supplies, service coordination, and data collection, as well as heavy concentration of medical personnel in urban areas. In the late 1980s, life expectancy at birth sixty-nine for females and sixty-five for males. <br /> '''Languages:''' Guaraní recognized as national language and spoken by approximately 90 percent of people in the late 1980s. Spanish official language but understood by only 75 percent of the population. Portuguese predominant in area near Brazilian border. <br /> '''Ethnic Groups:''' In the late 1980s, approximately 95 percent of population was mestizo; remainder were Indians, Asians, or whites. In the 1970s and 1980s, substantial immigration of Brazilians, Koreans, and ethnic Chinese. <br /> '''Religion:''' Estimated 92 to 97 percent of the population were Roman Catholics in the 1980s; remainder Mennonites or other Protestant groups.| مسار أرشيف = https://web.archive.org/web/20150711020057/http://lcweb2.loc.gov:80/frd/cs/pytoc.html | تاريخ أرشيف = 11 يوليو 2015 }}</ref>
