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Aymara

Indigenous Languages of the Americas

Aymara 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. Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru.

Facts
ISO 639-3 Code
aym 1
Speaker Count
1,700,000 1
2007-2014 estimate, native speakers; the infobox gives this as the inclusive code aym figure, which also covers the Central Aymara and Southern Aymara individual codes.
Region
Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Argentina 1
Classification
Official Status
Official Language 1
Aymara
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Latin Script, Scripts

Aymara is standardly written in a Latin-based alphabet.

Sources
1. Wikipedia: Aymara Language
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    Aymara 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. Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile and northern Argentina, where it is a recognized minority language.
  • Infobox, ISO 639-3
    aym
  • Infobox, Speakers
    1.7 million (2007-2014)
  • Infobox, Native to
    Bolivia, Chile, Peru, Argentina
  • Official status, Aymara entity page
    Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru.
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