Aymara language
Language spoken by the Aymara people / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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Aymara | |
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Aymar aru | |
Pronunciation | [ˈajmaɾ ˈaɾu] |
Native to | Bolivia Chile Peru Argentina |
Ethnicity | Aymara |
Native speakers | 1.7 million (2007–2014)[1] |
Aymaran
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Latin script | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Bolivia Peru[lower-alpha 1] |
Recognised minority language in | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | ay |
ISO 639-2 | aym |
ISO 639-3 | aym – inclusive codeIndividual codes: ayr – Central Aymaraayc – Southern Aymara |
Glottolog | nucl1667 |
ELP | Aymara |
Areas where it is the majority language
Areas where it is the minority language | |
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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.