Language code: aym

Technical information about ISO 639 language code aym

The table below provides technical details for the Aymara language, designated by the aym code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

aym

Name

Official

Aymara

Native

Aymar aru

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Language varieties
Central AymaraSouthern Aymara
Related languages
JaqaruKawki
Key facts
Highly agglutinative, stacking long sequences of suffixes on verb and noun stemsObligatory evidential markers indicate whether information is witnessed, inferred, or reportedDefault clause order is Subject-Object-VerbOnly three vowel qualities (a, i, u) exist, each contrasting in short and long lengthThe first full grammar and dictionary were produced by Jesuit scholar Ludovico Bertonio in 1612.
Sample phrase

Kamisaraki?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Aymara language, identified by the code aym, falls under the 'Macrolanguage' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Living' by its type.

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