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Aymara
Aymar aru
Pronunciation
[ˈajmaɾˈaɾu]
Native to
Bolivia Chile Peru Argentina
Ethnicity
Aymara
Native speakers
1.7 million (2007–2014)[1]
Language family
Aymaran
Aymara
Writing system
Latin script
Official status
Official language in
Bolivia Peru[a]
Recognised minority language in
Chile
Language codes
ISO 639-1
ay
ISO 639-2
aym
ISO 639-3
aym – inclusive code Individual codes: ayr – Central Aymara ayc – Southern Aymara
Glottolog
nucl1667
ELP
Aymara
Geographic distribution of the Aymara language
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Aymara (IPA:[aj.ˈma.ɾa]ⓘ; also Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers.[2][3] Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru.[4] It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language.
Some linguists have claimed that Aymara is related to its more widely spoken neighbor, Quechua. That claim, however, is disputed. Although there are indeed similarities, like the nearly identical phonologies, the majority position among linguists today is that the similarities are better explained as areal features arising from prolonged cohabitation, rather than natural genealogical changes that would stem from a common protolanguage.
Aymara is an agglutinating and, to a certain extent, a polysynthetic language. It has a subject–object–verb word order. It is based on a three-valued logic system.[citation needed] Aymara is normally written using the Latin alphabet.
^Aymara at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Central Aymara at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Southern Aymara at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
^"Bolivia: Idioma Materno de la Población de 4 años de edad y más- UBICACIÓN, ÁREA GEOGRÁFICA, SEXO Y EDAD". 2001 Bolivian Census. Instituto Nacional de Estadística, La Paz — Bolivia.[permanent dead link]
^The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guaraní.
^"CONSTITUCIÓN POLÍTICA DEL PERÚ" (PDF). Congreso de la república. Retrieved 2020-08-10. Artículo 48°.-Son idiomas oficiales el castellano y, en las zonas donde predominen, también lo son el quechua, el aimara y las demás lenguas aborígenes, según la ley. Article 48. Castillian Spanish is official, as are Quechua, Aymara, and other local native languages in the regions where they predominate.
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