Mura languages
The Mura languages were a small indigenous South American language family with originally four languages in the Amazon region of Brazil :
- Mura †
- Pirahã [myp] ( ISO 639-3 code )
- Bohurá †
- Yahahí †
The only language still spoken is Pirahã .
The Mura languages were tonal languages with a small phoneme inventory and the basic word order subject-object-verb (SOV).
literature
- Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald , RMW Dixon : Other small families and isolates . In: RMW Dixon, Alexandra Aikhenvald (Ed.): The Amazonian languages. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1999, ISBN 0-521-57021-2 , pp. 353-357.
Web links
- Mura (language family). In: M. Paul Lewis, Gary F. Simons, Charles D. Fennig (Eds.): Ethnologue. Languages of the World. 19th edition. Online version. SIL International, Dallas TX 2016.