Everything about Muran Languages totally explained
Muran is a small
language family of
Amazonas,
Brazil.
Family division
Muran consists of 4 languages:
- Mura †
- Pirahã (a.k.a. Pirahá, Pirahán)
- Bohurá †
- Yahahí †
Most Muran languages have died out due to the recent expansion of Brazilian
Portuguese, mainly because they were spoken by so few people. Mura, Bohurá, and Yahahí are now
extinct. Pirahã, the only surviving Muran language, is now spoken by just 150 people in eight villages.
Linguistically, the Muran family is typified by
agglutinativity, a very small number of
phonemes (11 compared to over 40 in
English), and the use of
tones.
Genealogical relations
Muran is often proposed to be related to
Matanawí. Kaufman (1994) also suggests a connection with
Huarpe (in his
Macro-Warpean proposal).
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