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I just looked up "aymara" region, it appears to be a language spoken by
indigenous people in South America...hmmmm....I wonder, if there were any
"transplants" from South America to Mexico?


Aymara is the language of the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymara">Aymara people of the
title=Andes href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andes">Andes
. It is one of
only a handful of
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_languages">Native American
languages
with over a million speakers, and it is one of the
title="Official language"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_language">official languages
of
Bolivia and
title=Peru href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru">Peru
. It is also spoken
in Chile and
title=Argentina href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina">Argentina
.


Many linguists believe that Aymara is related to its more widely-spoken
neighbour, href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quechua">Quechua. This claim, however, is
disputed — although there are indeed similarities, critics say that these may
simply be the result of prolonged interaction between the two languages or an
title="Areal feature (linguistics)"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areal_feature_%28linguistics%29">areal
feature
, not a shared origin.


The Aymara language is an
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflected_language">inflected language
,
and has a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject_Object_Verb">subject-object-verb

word order