Aymara Language: Native language in South America
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.
| Aymara | |
|---|---|
| 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 | |
Sources
- 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.
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