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Bauré is an endangered Arawakan 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 {{Authority control Ethnic groups in Bolivia
of the Beni Department of northwest of Magdalena, Bolivia. Some Bible portions have been translated into Bauré. Most speakers have been shifting to
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Orthography


Vowels

* a - * e - /e* i - * 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.


See also

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References


External links


Lenguas de Bolivia
(online edition)
Documentation of Endangered Languages: Baure
Arawakan languages Critically endangered languages Indigenous languages of the Andes Indigenous languages of the South American Northwest Languages of Bolivia Endangered indigenous languages of the Americas Endangered Arawan languages Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area {{Arawakan-lang-stub