Aymara
| Aymara Aymar aru | ||
|---|---|---|
| Speakers | ~ 2,230,000 | |
| Countries | OLPC_Bolivia Bolivia, OLPC_Peru Peru and OLPC_Chile Chile. | |
| Status | official | |
| Unicode | ??? | |
| Direction | lrtb | |
| Alphabet | Latin | |
| ISO 639-1: | ay | |
| ISO 639-2: | aym | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | aym | |
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 1985, the Peruvian goverment 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
Special characters
- Accented characters
- Punctuation
Formats
- Date
- Numbers
References
- Aymara language (Ethnologue)
http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=aym
- Aymara language (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymara_language
- Aymara language organization
- 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)
