Mura language
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Mura is a language of Amazonas, Brazil. It is most famous for Pirahã, its sole surviving dialect. Linguistically, it is typified by agglutinativity, a very small phoneme inventory (around 11 compared to around 44 in English), whistled speech, and the use of tone.
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Mura | |
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Bohurá | |
Buxwaray | |
Region | Amazon |
Ethnicity | 1,500 Mura people (1995)[1] |
Native speakers | 360 (2000)[1] mostly monolingual[1] |
Dialects | |
Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | myp Pirahã (Mura) |
ffg Bohura (not ISO) | |
cvf Yahahi (not ISO) | |
Glottolog | pira1253 |
The attested extent of Mura and Matanawi |
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In the 19th century, there were an estimated 30,000–60,000 Mura[clarification needed]. It is now spoken by only 300 Pirahã people in eight villages.