Uru–Chipaya languages

Uru–Chipaya
Uruquilla
Ethnicity Uru
Geographic
distribution
Lakes Titicaca and Poopo, Bolivia
Linguistic classification One of the world's primary language families
Subdivisions
Glottolog uruc1242[1]
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Current distribution of Uru-Chipaya-speaking peoples

The Uru–Chipaya family is an indigenous language family of Bolivia.

The speakers were originally fishermen on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Lake Poopo, and the Desaguadero River.

Chipaya has over a thousand speakers and sees vigorous use in the native community, but all other Uru languages or dialects are extinct.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Uru–Chipaya". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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