Talk:Aymara language

message: Some of the praise given to Aymara should be removed.  Aymara is just a linguistic anomaly, just as Spanish and English are.  Peter O. (Talk) 18:57, Sep 26, 2004 (UTC)
In my opinion, leaving those quotes of Umberto Eco should be put back in.  The article clearly stated that it was his opinion, and did not suggest that his opinion was right.  Perhaps if his quotes were put in, along with some sort of rebuttal?  I'm not aware of the issue enough to refute Eco's claims. --Bletch 18:25, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: This was a lot of uninformative and parochial blather:
:While the Aymara language is basically the same wherever it is spoken, there are regional differences.  The Aymara spoken in La Paz, Bolivia is sometimes claimed to be the 'purest' form of the language, though this seems a rather arbitrary favouritism. Of the regional variations, the 200,000 Aymara speakers from the border of Peru to Puno use the form most similar to the Aymara spoken in La Paz.  There are also about 90,000 Aymara speakers in the provinces of Huancané and Moho in the department of Puno in Peru.  While understood by Aymaristas from other regions, the Aymara spoken in Huancané and Moho seems to contain the most regional differences.
#I'm not sure whether the first sentence was edited into incoherence at some point or if it was trying to express that the language has mutually intelligible varieties. From the last sentence I guessed it was the latter; if I was mistaken please correct me.
#The second sentence is obviously an argument between editors in the narrative voice of the article, which sucks. I couldn't tell if  the La Paz form is a standard language of some kind, and if so, how it's standardized.
#The third and fourth sentences take a long time to get to the simple point: "Two varieties of the language are similar to each other. A third is similar to neither of the others. All are mutually comprehensible."
#It would be helpful (but beyond my abilities) to describe exactly what these regional differences are. Are the regional forms as distinct as varieties of Arabic?  Or are they as distinct as U.S. regional variations?  Are they somewhere in between? Are the differences in accent? Grammar? Vocabulary? All of the above? —Charles P._(Mirv) 06:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  regional differences 

message: I was under the impression that the '93 Constitution did away with that.  Does anyone have a source? --Descendall 03:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I actually just dug up a source.  "Achievements of Excluded Goups in the Andes" by Donna Lee Van Cott in State and Society in Conflict:  Perspectives on Andeans Crises edited by Paul W. Drake and Eric Herberg.  Page 167 has a chart that says that "Indigineous languages" are not official in Bolivia according to the 1994 Constitution and are official "in Indigenous territories" in Peru according to the 1993 Constitution.  --Descendall 04:03, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Official language of Peru?

message: In the article it is said that Aymara is based on a three value logic system. Can anyone add some example and details to show how Aymara based on this system? And how is it different from the binary logic in language? Without examples, it is very difficult to understand this unique feature. Salt 17:37, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt it is unique. I suspect it's a simple evidential system, as in Quechua, but without examples, I can't look into the grammar of it. I'll flag the statement. kwami (talk) 21:50, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

text: Since this has been asking for a site for over two years and hasn't received one, I've removed it.  Also, moved the stuff from Eco et al. to a new section, "References in literature." Suomichris (talk) 07:19, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three value logic system 

message: The citation given for number of speakers is a dead link, and I couldn't track down the data myself.  The Ethnologue counts for ayr and ayc add up to about 2,400,000.  Unless anyone has another citation, I suggest changing the number and dropping the "more than 3 million speakers" bit (that's the main thing that prompted me to check). -- Shimmin Beg (talk) 20:00, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
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