Mura languages

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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.