Yuracaré language

Yuracaré
Native to Bolivia
Region Cochabamba Department
Ethnicity 3,300 Yuracaré people (2004)[1] 3,394 Yuracaré people (2012) (INE Census)
Native speakers
2,700 (2004)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 yuz
Glottolog yura1255[2]

Yuracaré (also Yurakaré, Yurakar, Yuracare, Yurucare, Yuracar, Yurakare, Yurujuré, Yurujare) is an endangered language isolate of central Bolivia in Cochabamba and Beni departments spoken by the Yuracaré people.

There are approximately 2,500 speakers. These numbers are in decline as the youngest generation no longer learns the language.[3] (See Language death.)

Yuracaré is documented with a grammar based on an old missionary manuscript by de la Cueva (Adam 1893). The language is currently being studied by Rik van Gijn. A Foundation for Endangered Languages grant was awarded for a Yuracaré–Spanish / Spanish–Yuracaré dictionary project in 2005.

Genealogical relations

Suárez (1977) suggests a relationship between Yuracaré and the Mosetenan, Pano–Tacanan, Arawakan, and Chon families. His earlier Macro-Panoan proposal is the same minus Arawakan (Suárez 1969).

Grammar

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Yuracaré at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Yuracaré". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
  3. Documentation of Endangered Languages.

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