Central Aymara
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| Central Aymara | ||
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| Spoken in: | Perú, Chile, Bolivia | |
| Total speakers: | 2,227,642 | |
| Language family: | American Aymaran Central Aymara |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ayr | |
| ISO 639-3: | ayr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Central Aymara (ISO/DIS 639-3: ayr) is a branch of the Aymara language spoken by more than 2,227,642 across Southern South America, including 1,785,000 in Bolivians in the high plane altiplano region west of the eastern Andes and more recently some in the Yungas and lowland regions due to internal migration. In Perú, 441,743 speak it in the Lake Titicaca area, especially around Pune. Furthermore there are 899 speakers in the far northern mountainous regions of Chile and quite a few speakers in Argentina, these are mostly sugar mill immigrant workers from Bolivia.
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Living languages
Ayacucho Quechua · Central Aymara · Chilean Quechua · Chilean Sign Language · Huilliche · Mapudungun · Quechua · Rapa Nui · Spanish
Extinct and endangered langauges
Kawésqar/Alacaluf · Kunza · Ona/Selknam · Tehuelche · Yaghan
Language families
Aymaran · Chon · Malayo-Polynesian · Quechuan · Romance
