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Language code: ay

Technical information about ISO 639 language code ay

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The table below provides technical details for the Aymara language, designated by the ay code from the ISO 639-1 standard.

Code

ay

Name

Official

Aymara

Native

Aymar aru

Family
Aymaran
Scripts
Latin
Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central AymaraSouthern Aymara
Related languages
JaqaruKawki
Key facts
Agglutinative language with over 200 productive suffixesMarks three levels of evidentiality (direct, inferred, reported) on verbsHas only three phonemic vowels (a, i, u) but distinguishes short and long lengthTypical clause order is subject–object–verbAymara words and grammatical structures have influenced regional Spanish and Quechua varieties.
Sample phrase

Kamisaraki?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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Aymara belongs to the Aymaran language family. It is officially used in Bolivia and Peru, and is recognized as a minority language in Chile. It is written in the Latin script. It is estimated that there are more than 1.7 million speakers worldwide.

Language presence globally

Speakers

Bolivia

1.7M

Peru

580K

*The graph shows a rough estimate of Aymara speakers in countries where it is an official or minority language.

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