Endangered Languages Project - Aymara

Aymara

^{[aka Aymará, Aymara, Southern, Southern Aymara]}

Classification: Aymaran

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at risk

ALSO KNOWN AS		Aymará, Aymara, Southern, Southern Aymara, 2 varieties: Aymara (Central)/Aymara (Southern), Aimara, Tupe
CLASSIFICATION		Aymaran
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		ayc
VARIANTS & DIALECTS		Central Aimara (Bolivia) Southern Aimara (Peru)
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Ethnologue lists Aymara [aym] as a macro-language consisting of Central Aymara [ayr] (Bolivia) and Southern Aymara [ayc] (Peru). For most linguists, what Central Aymara [ayr] and Southern Aymara [ayc] are not separate languages.

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Information from: “Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger” . Christopher Moseley (ed.) (2010) UNESCO Publishing

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,000,000
Native speakers worldwide

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2,317,000
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Central Aymara [ayr]: 2,098,000 in Bolivia (2006 PIB). Population total all countries: 2,589,000.
Southern Aymara [ayc]: 219,000 (2006).

DATE OF INFO: 2006

PLACES: Peru; Bolivia; Chile;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Central Aymara [ayr]: Whole Altiplano west of eastern Andes. Some migration to valleys and lowlands.
Southern Aymara [ayc]: Tacna, Moquegua, and Puno regions, from Lake Titicaca toward the ocean.

At risk

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
443,248
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Census

DATE OF INFO: 2007

Scripts (Writing system): Latin
More on Orthography: Aymara has an official alphabet, established by the Resolución Ministerial No. 1218-85-ED (November 18, 1985). It contains 32 letters.

PLACES: Peru; Bolivia; Argentina; Chile

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Traditionally spoken in the Puno, Moquegua, and Tacna Regions in Peru, but now also spoken by migrant groups in Lima, Arequipa, and Madre de Dios, as well as in Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Chile.

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