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Encyclopedia > Mura languages
Mura (')
Spoken in: Brazil
Region: Amazon River
Total speakers: 150
Ranking: Not in top 100
Genetic classification: Mura languages
Official status
Official language of: -
Regulated by: -
Language codes
ISO 639-1 -
ISO 639-2 sai
SIL MYP


The Mura language family is a language family of Brazil. The only surviving Mura language is Pirahă, with about 150 speakers.


Linguistically, the Mura family is typified by agglutinativity, by paucity of phonemes (Pirahă has just 11 compared to English's 40-odd), and by grammatical tone.


The Mura language is the eponymous member of this language family; however, most Mura languages have died due to the usage of Portuguese in Brazil, mainly because they were spoken by so few people anyway: the Pirahă language is now spoken by just 150 people in eight villages.


External link

  • Ethnologue report for Mura (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MYP)

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