Jesuit rule in Paraguay let Guaraní become a print language

Evidence

Paraguay forms a case of exceptional interest. Thanks to the relatively benevolent dictatorship established there by the Jesuits early in the seventeenth century, the indigenes were better treated than elsewhere in Spanish America, and Guaraní achieved the status of print-language. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 282

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates Anderson’s core mechanism — print-language status enables imagined community — in a colonial non-European case that scaffolds the toolkit.