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  2. 5 days ago · Aymara, large South American Indian group living on the Altiplano —a vast windy plateau of the central Andes in Peru and Bolivia —with smaller numbers in Argentina and Chile. Their language is also called Aymara. In colonial times the Aymara tribes were the Canchi, Colla, Lupaca, Collagua, Ubina, Pacasa, Caranga, Charca, Quillaca, Omasuyo ...

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  3. May 23, 2024 · Macro-Quechua comprising the Zuni language, the Purépecha language and various languages of South America including Quechua, the Aymara language, the Panoan languages and most of the various other languages of Patagonia and the Andes.

  4. 1 day ago · The Indigenous languages of the Americas had widely varying demographics, from the Quechuan languages, Aymara, Guarani, and Nahuatl, which had millions of active speakers, to many languages with only several hundred speakers.

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    1 day ago · According to the Peruvian Constitution of 1993, Peru's official languages are Spanish and, in areas where they predominate, Quechua and other Indigenous languages. Spanish is spoken natively by 82.6% of the population, Quechua by 13.9%, and Aymara by 1.7%, while other languages are spoken by the remaining 1.8%.

  6. May 11, 2024 · Quechua, South American Indians living in the Andean highlands from Ecuador to Bolivia. They speak many regional varieties of Quechua, which was the language of the Inca empire (though it predates the Inca) and which later became the lingua franca of the Spanish and Indians throughout the Andes.

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  7. May 7, 2024 · There’s so much more than Spanish in Bolivia! Some of Bolivia’s 37 official languages are effectively dead, but some are very much alive. A census survey puts the main languages used by the population at 69% for Spanish, 17% for Quechua (also sometimes spelled Quichua) and 11% for Aymara.

  8. May 21, 2024 · 1. What percentage of Peruvians speak English? Around 11% of the population speaks English as their second language in Peru. 2. Does Peru speak German or Portuguese? While Spanish is the primary language, Peru also recognizes Quechua and Aymara as official languages. German and Portuguese are not widely spoken in the country. 3.

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