Baure language

E155579

The Baure language is an indigenous Arawakan language spoken by the Baure people of Bolivia, now critically endangered with very few fluent speakers remaining.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Baure language canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
critically endangered language
indigenous language
belongsToMacroArea South America
continent South America
country Bolivia
endangermentCause language shift to Spanish
ethnicGroup Baure people
glottologName Baure
hasAlternativeName Bauré
Bawre
Bawré
hasDocumentation dictionaries
grammars
text collections
hasGlottocode baur1253
hasHistoricalContactWith Missionary Spanish
hasLinguisticFeature complex aspect system
noun classifiers
possessive classifiers
rich verbal morphology
hasMorphologyType agglutinative language
hasNeighborLanguage Ignaciano language
Paunaka language
Trinitario language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
simple consonant inventory
hasRevitalizationEffort community-based language classes
documentation projects
hasSociolinguisticSituation mostly spoken by elderly speakers
hasTypologicalProfile head-marking language
hasWordOrder SVO
iso639-3Code brg
isPartOf Bolivian Amazonian languages
isSpokenNear Guaporé River
Iténez River
languageBranch Bolivian Arawakan
languageFamily Arawakan languages
numberOfSpeakers very few fluent speakers
primaryContactLanguage Spanish
region Beni Department
spokenBy Baure people
spokenIn Bolivia
status critically endangered
subfamily Arawakan languages
surface form: Southern Arawakan languages
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Arawakan languages hasLanguage Baure language
Moxeño relatedTo Baure language