Bauré is an endangered

Arawakan Arawakan (''Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper''), also known as Maipurean (also ''Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre''), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America. Branch ...

language spoken by only 40 of the thousand

Baure people The Baure people are an ethnic group who live in the Beni Department of Bolivia. There were 3,328 of them according to the 2012 census of which 58 spoke the Baure language natively. References

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of the

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of northwest of Magdalena,

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. Some Bible portions have been translated into Bauré. Most speakers have been shifting to

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Orthography

Vowels

* a - * e - �/e* i - /ɪ* o - /ɔ/u

Consonants

* ch/č/z - ͡ʃ[,_[d͡ʒafter_n *_h/j_-_[h.html" ;"title="_[d͡ʒ.html" ;"title="͡ʃ[, [d͡ʒ">͡ʃ[, [d͡ʒafter n * h/j - [h">_[d͡ʒ.html" ;"title="͡ʃ[, [d͡ʒ">͡ʃ[, [d͡ʒafter n * h/j - [h* k/c/qu/g - [k], [g] after n * m - [m] * n - [n] * p/b - [p], [b] after m * r/l - [r/l] * s - [s] * sh/š/x - [ʃ] * t/d - [t], [d] after n * v/b - [β/b] * w/hu/u - [w] * y - [j] * '/h - [ʔ]

Grammar

Baure has an active–stative syntax.Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., ''The Amazonian Languages'', 1999.

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