Mure language

Not to be confused with More language (Bolivia).
Mure
RegionBolivia (Beni Department)
Extinct(date missing)
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmure1235

Mure is an extinct language of Bolivia. It was long considered a Chapacuran language, but the similarities are few, and are likely loans, as the Mure were missioned together with speakers of Chapacuran languages. Apart from those few words, the languages are "utterly different" according to Glottolog,[1] a view that is shared by Birchall (2013).[2]

The Mure lived in the Jesuit Missions of Moxos. They mostly resided in San Simón Mission, with some also living in San Francisco de Borja Mission together with the Movima. Neighbors of the Mure included the Rokorona.[3]

  1. ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forke, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2020). "Mure". Glottolog 4.3.
  2. ^ Birchall, Joshua (2013). "A look at the Rokorona language". STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 66 (3). doi:10.1524/stuf.2013.0013. ISSN 2196-7148. S2CID 62461567.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Crequi-Rivet-1913 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).