Aymara Language Resources (aym)

Aymara is spoken by 2.5 million people of the Bolivian Andes. Aymara, along with Spanish and Quechua, is an official language in Bolivia and Peru. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over one million speakers. It is also spoken, to a much lesser extent, by some communities in northern Chile, where it is a recognized minority language.

There are roughly two million Bolivian speakers, half a million Peruvian speakers, and perhaps a few thousand speakers in Chile. 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 Cusco. Over the centuries, Aymara has gradually lost speakers both to Spanish and to Quechua; many Peruvian and Bolivian communities that were once Aymara-speaking now speak Quechua.

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