Aymaran
Aymara
Aymaran or Aymara is a South American language. Geographical distributionThere are roughly 1.6 million Bolivian speakers, 420,000 Peruvian speakers and 15,000 Chilean speakers.[1] At the time of the Spanish conquest, in the sixteenth century, Aymara was the dominant language over a much larger area than today, including most of highland Peru south of Cuzco. Over the centuries Aymara has gradually lost speakers both to Spanish and to Quechua; today, many Peruvian and Bolivian communities which were once Aymara-speaking speak Quechua.[2] References | ||||
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