World Language Map

Aymaran languages map

4 Aymaran languages are on the map, most of them in Peru, Argentina and Bolivia. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Central-Southern Aymara (2 languages). The best-known members include Jaqaru and Cauqui of Cachuy. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Aymaran family at a glance

  • 4languages
  • 0drawn as areas
  • 4shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Aymaran alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Aymaran languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Jaqaru spoken? (about 448 speakers)
  2. Where is Cauqui of Cachuy spoken? (about 5 speakers)

Branches of Aymaran

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Central-Southern Aymara (2)
  • Tupe (2)

Where Aymaran languages are spoken

Countries with the most Aymaran languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 4 Aymaran languages, A to Z

Questions about Aymaran languages

How many Aymaran languages are there?

4 living Aymaran languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Central-Southern Aymara (2 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Aymaran languages spoken?

Peru (4), Argentina (2), Bolivia (2) and Chile (2) have the most Aymaran languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

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