Aymara

Aymara, Aymara Aymar aru
Speakers	~ 2,230,000
Countries	Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina countries listed by Aymara population.
Status	official
Unicode	???
Direction	lrtb
Alphabet	Latin
ISO 639-1:	ay
ISO 639-2:	aym
ISO/FDIS 639-3:	aym

project to translate Sugar to Aymará

proyecto de traducir Sugar al aymará

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Aymara is an Amerind language with about 2.2 million speakers in Bolivia, Peru, Argentina and Chile, particular around Lake Titicaca on the high plateaus of the Andes.

Under the influence of the Spanish, the Latin alphabet was adopted to write Aymara. Many different spelling systems have been proposed over the years. In May 9th 1984 and November 18th 1985, the Bolivian and Peruvian goverments respectively introduced a new spelling system known as the Aymara Official Alphabet or Unified Alphabet.

l10n

Character sets

Script layout

is left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Fully supported by Pango the layout engine chosen.

Fonts

Keyboard

Considerations should be taken regarding countries where more than one language is used. Example:

Guarani

Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, & Paraguay

Mapudungun

Argentina & Chile

Quechua

Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Perú.

Input methods

except for 'standard' keyboard and touchpad would suffice for general use, although special considerations would be needed for physical dissabilities.

Speech synthesis

Music and sound samples

Dictionaries, Spelling Checkers, Thesaurus

Character recognition

Alphabet

p ph p' t th t' k kh k' q qh q' ch chh ch' j x ll l ñ n r w y

Special characters

Accented characters

Punctuation

Formats

Date

Numbers

Number of plurals (needed for Pootle)

1

Plural equation (needed for Pootle)

(0)

References

• See also OLPC_Peru/Languages

• Aymara language family (Ethnologue)

http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90758

• Aymara language (Wikipedia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymara_language

• Aymara language organization

http://aymara.org/

• Aymara alphabet

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/aymara.htm

• Quechuan and Aymaran spelling

http://www.quechua.org.uk/Eng/Sounds/Home/HomeSpelling.htm

• Quechuan and Aymaran spelling shift

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechuan_and_Aymaran_spelling_shift

Spoken

• IPA symbols for Quechua and Aymara

http://www.quechua.org.uk/Eng/Sounds/Spelling/Symbols.htm

• The Sounds of the Andean Languages

http://www.quechua.org.uk/Eng/Sounds/Home/HomeWelcome.htm

Dictionaries

• Diccionario Aymara-Castellano (Aymara-Spanish dictionary)

http://www.lenguandina.org/