Aymara language

The Aymara language is spoken by the Aymara tribe in Bolivia, Peru, and northern Chile. In Chile, only a third of the tribe say that they speak it well. An inflected language, it is one of the few Native American languages to have over a 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)
Language family	Aymaran Aymara
Language codes
ISO 639-1	ay
ISO 639-2	aym
ISO 639-3	aym – inclusive code Individual codes: ayr – Central Aymara ayc – 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.