Aymara
native language in South America
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Summary
Aymara is a natural language[1]. Aymara draws 3,509 Wikipedia views per month (natural language category, ranking #119 of 734).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Bolivia[3], Peru[4], Chile[5]
- Instance of: macrolanguage[6], modern language[7]
- Subclass of: Aymaran[8], Indigenous languages of the Americas[9]
- Writing system: Latin script[10], Latin alphabet[11]
- Commons category: Aymara language[12]
- Wikimedia language code: ay[13]
- Topic's main category: Category:Aymara language[14]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 4,000,000[15]
- Topic has template: Template:Lang-ay[16]
- Native label: Aymar aru[17]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C153846[18]
- UNESCO language status: 2 vulnerable[19]
- Indigenous to: Andes[20]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/AYM[21], https://afbo.info/languages/122[22]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[23], agglutinative language[24]
- Category for films in this language: Category:Aymara-language films[25]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Languages[26], WikiProject Indigenous peoples of the Americas[27], WikiProject Bolivia[28], WikiProject Peru[29], WikiProject Chile[30], WikiProject South America[31], WikiProject Oral tradition[32]
- Related category: Category:Aymara pronunciation[33]
- P14691: aym[34]
- P14692: Dom-Hotel[35]
Why It Matters
Aymara has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] Aymara is known by 69 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]