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Mura language

Mura language

Language family
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, whistled speech, and the use of tone. In the 19th century, there... Wikipedia
Language family: Macro-Warpean ?: Mura–Matanawi ? > Mura
Native speakers: 360 (2000); mostly monolingual