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Aymara language
native language in South America / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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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 |
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