Baure language

Bauré is an endangered Arawakan language spoken by only 40 of the thousand Baure people of the Beni Department of northwest of Magdalena, Bolivia. Some Bible portions have been translated into Bauré. Most speakers have been shifting to Spanish.

Bauré
Native toBolivia
RegionBeni Department
Ethnicity980 (2006)[1]
Native speakers
40 (2007)[1]
Arawakan
  • Southern
    • Bolivia–Parana
      • Moxos
        • Bauré
Dialects
  • Joaquiniano
Language codes
ISO 639-3brg
Glottologbaur1253  Baure
ELPBaure[2]

Baure has an active–stative syntax.[3]

See also

References
  1. Bauré at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Baure.
  3. Aikhenvald, "Arawak", in Dixon & Aikhenvald, eds., The Amazonian Languages, 1999.


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