Aymara is spoken in the Andean highlands around Lake Titicaca, chiefly in Bolivia and Peru, with smaller communities in northern Chile. It holds official status in both Bolivia and Peru alongside Spanish and Quechua. Speaker estimates sit around two million, most of them in Bolivia. Aymara belongs to its own small language family, the Aymaran family, and although it has lived alongside Quechua for many centuries and shares vocabulary with it, linguists treat the two as separate lineages. The language is agglutinative, building long words from strings of suffixes, and it uses only three vowel qualities. Today Aymara is written in the Latin alphabet and appears in Bolivian schooling and broadcasting, though Spanish dominates in the towns and many younger speakers grow up bilingual.
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