Bauré

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Bauré is an Arawakan indigenous language spoken by the Bauré people in Bolivia, now critically endangered with very few remaining speakers.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Bauré canonical 2
Bauré (Arawakan) 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arawakan language
critically endangered language
indigenous language
belongsToMacroArea South America
continent South America
country Bolivia
culturalRole marker of Bauré ethnic identity
documentationStatus partially documented
endangermentStatus critically endangered
ethnicGroupAssociated Bauré people
hasAlternativeName Baure
Bauré (Arawakan)
linked to: Bauré
hasGlottocode baur1253
hasGlottologName Baure
hasHistoricalContactWith Spanish language
linked to: Spanish

missionary languages
hasISO6393Code brg
hasLanguageShiftTo Camba Spanish
Spanish
hasMorphologicalFeature derivational suffixes
possessive prefixes
verbal person marking
hasNeighboringLanguage Ignaciano
Mojeño
Trinitario
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
rich vowel system
hasRevitalizationEffort community-based language classes
linguistic documentation projects
hasSociolinguisticSituation limited intergenerational transmission
spoken mainly by elderly speakers
hasWordOrder SVO-dominant
isPartOf Bolivian Amazonian languages
languageFamily Arawakan
linked to: Arawakan languages
languageStatus moribund
severely threatened
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
head-marking language
numberOfSpeakers very few remaining speakers
regionOfOrigin Moxos Plains
linked to: Llanos de Moxos
spokenBy Bauré people
spokenInCountry Bolivia
spokenInRegion Beni Department
subfamily Southern Arawakan
usedBy indigenous communities in Beni
usedIn oral tradition
traditional rituals
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (3)

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

Baure alternateName Bauré
Bauré hasAlternativeName Bauré (Arawakan)
linked to: Bauré