Aymaran languages

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Aymaran (also Jaqi, Aru, Jaqui, Aimara, Haki) is one of the two dominant language families of the central Andes, along with Quechuan.

[edit] Family division

Aymaran consists of 2 languages:

1. Aymara (a.k.a. Aimara, Southern Aimara, Collavino Aimara)

a. Central Aymara

b. Southern Aymara (a.k.a Carangas)

2. Jaqaru-Cauqui (a.k.a. Central Aimara, Tupino Aimara, Tupe Aimara, Cauqui, Hakaru-Kauki)

a. Jaqaru (a.k.a. Hakaru, Haqearu, Haqaru, Haqʼaru)

b. Cauqui (a.k.a. Kauki, Kawki, Jaqaru of Cachuy)

Central Aymara has approximately 2.2 million speakers; 1.7 million in Bolivia, 350,000 in Peru, and the rest in Chile and Argentina. Southern Aymara is spoken in southern Peru.

Jaqaru has approximately 725 speakers in central Peru, while Cauqui has about 11 speakers. Cauqui is mostly undocumented. Although the relationship between Cauqui and Jaqaru is not well known, different authors have considered them to be variously dialects of the same language and separate languages.

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[edit] Bibliography

Adelaar, Willem F. H.; & Muysken, Pieter C. (2004). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys. Cambridge University Press.
Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr. (Ed.). (2005). Ethnologue: Languages of the world (15th ed.). Dallas, TX: SIL International. ISBN 1-55671-159-X. (Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com).
Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the world's languages (pp. 46-76). London: Routledge.