Aymara is an andean language which is endangered with disappearance and it is still spoken around the Titicaca lake. Until 1972 there were over two million speakers. Recent results of censuses of Bolivia, Peru and Chile gave one million and three hundred thousand aymaristas. That is, in less than thirty years the Aymara speakers have a decrease of 35%. No one knows, exactly, which was the most ancient organized Aymara state. But is usual to refer to the Tiahuanaco civilization, 2000 BC approximately, as being the first Aymara state. There were many other Aymara states among them The Lupakas, 1400 AD, who were the last politically-independent Aymara nation.
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