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Languages of Bolivia
Sign in Okinawa Uno (a colonia in Bolivia),
in Spanish and Okinawan
Official
36 languages
  • Aymara, Araona, Baure, Bésiro, Canichana, Cavineño, Cayubaba, Chácobo, Chimán, Ese Ejja, Guaraní, Guarasu'we, Guarayu, Itonama, Leco, Machajuyai-Kallawaya, Machineri, Maropa, Mojeño-Ignaciano, Mojeño-Trinitario, Moré, Mosetén, Movima, Pacawara, Puquina, Quechua, Sirionó, Spanish, Tacana, Tapieté, Toromona, Uru-Chipaya, Weenhayek, Yaminawa, Yuki, Yuracaré, Zamuco
MainSpanish
IndigenousArawakan languages, Pano-Tacanan languages, Quechuan languages, Tupian languages, others
VernacularBolivian Spanish, Portuñol
MinorityStandard German, Plautdietsch
ForeignEnglish
SignedBolivian Sign Language
Keyboard layout
Dutch Netherland QWERTY

The languages of Bolivia include Spanish; several dozen indigenous languages, most prominently Aymara, Quechua, Chiquitano, and Guaraní; Bolivian Sign Language (closely related to American Sign Language). Indigenous languages and Spanish are official languages of the state according to the 2009 Constitution. The constitution says that all indigenous languages are official, listing 36 specific languages, of which some are extinct. Spanish and Quechua are spoken primarily in the Andes region, Aymara is mainly spoken in the Altiplano around Lake Titicaca, Chiquitano is spoken in the central part of Santa Cruz department, and Guarani is spoken in the southeast on the border with Paraguay and Argentina.

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Languages of Bolivia

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The languages of Bolivia include Spanish; several dozen indigenous languages, most prominently Aymara, Quechua, Chiquitano, and Guaraní; Bolivian Sign...

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Demographics of Bolivia

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Aymara, Guarani languages, as well as 34 other native languages are the official languages of Bolivia. Spanish is the most-spoken language (60.7%) within...

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Chapacuran languages

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The Chapacuran languages are a nearly extinct Native American language family of South America. Almost all Chapacuran languages are extinct, and the four...

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Languages of South America

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Bolivia and Paraguay Quechua in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru Indigenous languages of South America include, among several others, the Quechua languages...

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Bolivians

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indigenous languages, are official languages of the country. The mutual influence and interaction of cultures of Bolivia have resulted in modern Bolivian society...

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Tacanan languages

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a family of languages spoken in Bolivia, with Ese’ejja also spoken in Peru. It may be related to the Panoan languages. Many of the languages are endangered...

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Panoan languages

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Panoana, Páno) is a family of languages spoken in western Brazil, eastern Peru, and northern Bolivia. It is possibly a branch of a larger Pano–Tacanan family...

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Kallawaya language

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several moribund languages. Bolivians refer to the region where the speakers live as "Qollahuayas,"[what language is this?] meaning "place of the medicines"...

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Bolivian Spanish

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tongue or as a second language. Within the Spanish of Bolivia there are different regional varieties. In the border areas, Bolivia shares dialectal features...

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Bolivia

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Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the...

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Puquina language

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well as in Bolivia. There also seem to be remnants in the Kallawaya language, which may be a mixed language formed from Quechuan languages and Puquina...

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Varieties of American Sign Language

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dialects of ASL (such as Bolivian Sign Language) and which have diverged to the point of being distinct languages (such as Malaysian Sign Language). The...

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Guarani language

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language"), is a South American language that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani branch of the Tupian language family. It is one of the official languages of...

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Indigenous languages of the Americas

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The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous...

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Uru language

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of "Uchumataqu: The Lost Language of the Urus of Bolivia. A Description of the Language as Documented between 1894 and 1952. Indigenous Languages of Latin...

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List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language

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official language at the national level while the Kichwa (Northern Quechua) and Shuar languages hold co-official status in selected regions. In Bolivia, the...

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Aymara language

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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...

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Spanish language

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BC. Several pre-Roman languages (also called Paleohispanic languages)—some distantly related to Latin as Indo-European languages, and some that are not...

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Moxo languages

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'Moho') is any of the Arawakan languages spoken by the Moxo people of the Llanos de Moxos in northeastern Bolivia. The two extant languages of the Moxo people...

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Indigenous peoples in Bolivia

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Bolivia, or Native Bolivians, are Bolivian people who are of indigenous ancestry. They constitute anywhere from 20 to 60% of Bolivia's population of 11...

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Baure language

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official indigenous languages of Bolivia, which was included in the Political Constitution passed on 7 February 2009. According to the data of Crevels and Muysken...

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Minority language

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indigenous languages of Bolivia. Likewise, some national languages are often considered minority languages, insofar as they are the national language of a stateless...

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Southern Quechua

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Cusco, Ayacucho, Puno (Collao), and South Bolivian. In the traditional classification of the Quechua language family by Alfredo Torero, Southern Quechua...

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Chorote languages

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northwestern Argentina, and also in Paraguay and far-southeastern Bolivia. The languages are part of the Matacoan family, and are most closely related to Wichí...

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Chimane language

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Department of Beni (Bolivia). Sakel (2004) classifies them as two languages for a number of reasons, yet some of the variants of the language are mutually...

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Language isolate

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different languages. Examples include Japanese and Georgian: Japanese is now part of the Japonic language family with the Ryukyuan languages, and Georgian...

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Chiquitano language

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Tarapecosi) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in the central region of Santa Cruz Department of eastern Bolivia and the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil...

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