Aymara
Americannoun
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a member of an Indian people living in the mountainous regions around Lake Titicaca in Bolivia and Peru.
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the language of the Aymara people.
noun
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a member of a South American Indian people of Bolivia and Peru
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the language of this people, probably related to Quechua
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Origin of Aymara
First recorded in 1855–60
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Bolivia is a country of 12 million people, many of them members of the Aymara and Quechua indigenous groups living in the high mountains.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026
The Aymara women remember a time when practically every spot on the glaciers was covered in snow, but now there are parts with nothing but rocks.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2023
“Sometimes the jararanko is scary—it chases you and bites you,” says Flores, who is Aymara, and kills the animals legally for use in traditional medicine.
From National Geographic • Oct. 26, 2023
Once there, they knelt, praying in Aymara, Quechua as well as Spanish, their eyes tightly closed with hands extended to the heavens.
From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2023
The official and principal tongue was the Qquichua, the two other languages of importance being the Yunca, spoken by the coast tribes, and the Aymara, around Lake Titicaca and south of it.
From American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent by Brinton, Daniel Garrison
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