Aymara language

Aymara
Aymar aru
Pronunciation[ˈajmaɾ ˈaɾu]
Native toBolivia
Chile
Peru
Argentina
EthnicityAymara
Native speakers
1.7 million (2007–2014)[1]
Aymaran
  • Aymara
Latin script
Official status
Official language in
 Bolivia
 Peru[a]
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-1ay
ISO 639-2aym
ISO 639-3aym – inclusive code
Individual codes:
ayr – Central Aymara
ayc – Southern Aymara
Glottolognucl1667
ELPAymara
  Areas where it is the majority language
  Areas where it is the minority 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.

  1. ^ Aymara at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Closed access icon
    Central Aymara at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Closed access icon
    Southern Aymara at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "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]
  3. ^ The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guaraní.
  4. ^ "CONSTITUCIÓN POLÍTICA DEL PERÚ" (PDF). Congreso de la república. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-08-18. 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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