Baure language
| Bauré | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Bolivia |
| Ethnicity | 980 (2006)[1] |
Native speakers | 40 (2007)[1] |
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Arawakan
| |
| Dialects |
Joaquiniano
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
brg |
| Glottolog |
baur1254[2] |
Bauré is a nearly extinct Arawakan language spoken by only 40 of the thousand Baure people of the Beni department of northwest of Magdalena, Bolivia. Some Bible portions have been translated into Baure. Most speakers have been shifting to Spanish.
Baure has an active–stative syntax.[3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bauré at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Baure-Carmelito-Joaquiniano". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.
External links
- Lenguas de Bolivia (online edition)
- Documentation of Endangered Languages: Baure
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