Guató language
| Guató | |
|---|---|
| go-t͡ʃéuvɨ́ i-ótɨ́ | |
| Native to | Brazil, Bolivia |
| Region | Mato Grosso do Sul state: Paraguay River banks and up São Lourenço River, along Bolivian border; also Santa Cruz Department (Bolivia): Uberaba Lake |
| Ethnicity | 419 Guató people (2014) |
Native speakers | 2 (2023) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gta |
| Glottolog | guat1253 |
| ELP | Guató |
Guató is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
Guató (Guató: go-t͡ʃéuvɨ́ i-ótɨ́) is a language isolate spoken by two of the Guató people of Brazil. It has variously been claimed to be of Macro-Jê or isolate affiliation. Guató is a VSO language, has agglutination, and has ergative alignment.