Aymara language
Aymara | |
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Aymar aru | |
Native to | Bolivia, Peru and Chile. |
Ethnicity | Aymara people |
Native speakers | (1.8 million in Bolivia cited 1987) 660,000 in Peru (2000–2006) |
Aymaran
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ay |
ISO 639-2 | aym |
ISO 639-3 | aym – inclusive codeIndividual codes: ayr – Central Aymaraayc – Southern Aymara |
ELP | Aymara |
Geographic Distribution of the Aymara language |
The Aymara language is spoken by the Aymara tribe in Bolivia, Peru, and north of Chile. In Chile, only a third of thribe say that they speak it well. An inflected language, it is one of the few Native American languages that has over one million speakers.
Sources
Aymara edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Currency and Displacement of the Aymara Language in Chile. Estud. filol. [online]. GUNDERMANN, H, GONZALEZ, H and VERGARA, JI. Sept. 2007, no.42 [cited 20 April 2008], p. 123-140.