Southern Aymara in Peru

Speakers

450,010

Type

Location

Southern Aymara in Peru

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Southern Aymara in Peru

Size

450,010

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
Region of Puno, Tacna, Moquegua, Cusco and Arequipa

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes

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Video

Digital
Yes

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Audio

Digital
Yes

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
Peru (regions of Puno, Tacna, Moquegua, Arequipa and Cusco), border with Bolivia and Chile

Size / Number of users

Number of users

450010
Source
Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática-INEI, CPV 2017.
Year
2017

Users within total population

1.00000
Less than 10% use the language

PROPORTION

1
Source
census, 2017
Year
2017

Users within the reference community

Less than 10% use the language
Actual percentage
1
Source
census, 2017
Year
2017

Age distribution of users

73,143
16
percentage of members of older generations (> 65)
Source

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI, 2017)

Year
2017

Generational use

49
51
450,010
All generations
Source

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática (INEI, 2017)

Year
2017

Language competence

Understand little, speak/sign none
Understand some, speak/sign little
Understand well, speak/sign some

Literacy of users

Less than 50% of users with literacy in the language

Digital use

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
Bolivia and Chile

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
equal
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary
Functional scope
  • Public domains
  • Everyday domains
  • Private domains
Nature
complementary

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

Legal system

Completion