Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Central South America , Andes Mountains
- Linguistic classification
- Quechumaran ? Aymaran
- Subdivisions
- Aymara Jaqaru–Kawki
- Glottolog
- ayma1253
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Encyclopedic overview
Aymaran (also Jaqi or Aru) is one of the two dominant language families in the central Andes alongside Quechuan. The family consists of Aymara, widely spoken in Bolivia, and the endangered Jaqaru and Kawki languages of Peru.
Hardman (1978) proposed the name Jaqi for the family of languages, Alfredo Torero Aru 'to speak', and Rodolfo Cerrón Palomino Aymaran, with two branches, Southern (or Altiplano) Aymaran and Central Aymaran (Jaqaru and Kawki). Other names for the family are Jaqui (also spelled Haki) and Aimara.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aymaran” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.