Mura language
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.
| Mura | |
|---|---|
| Bohurá | |
| Buxwaray | |
| Region | Amazon |
| Ethnicity | 1,500 Mura people (1995) |
Native speakers | 360 (2000) mostly monolingual |
| 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 | |
In the 19th century, there were an estimated 30,000–60,000 Mura. It is now spoken by only 300 Pirahã people in eight villages.
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