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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[a] |
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 | |
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.
- ^ Aymara at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
Central Aymara at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
Southern Aymara at Ethnologue (24th ed., 2021)
- ^ "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]
- ^ The other native American languages with more than one million speakers are Nahuatl, Quechua languages, and Guaraní.
- ^ "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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