Uru of Ch'imu

Not to be confused with Uru of Iru Itu or Chimu language.

Uru
Uru of Ch'imu
Native to	Peru
Region	Lake Titicaca, east of Puno
Ethnicity	Uru people
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	Uru–Chipaya Uru
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (`mis`)
Glottolog	None

Uru of Ch'imu is an extinct language of the Uros, an Amerindian people. Speakers lived on reed islands in Puno Bay in western Lake Titicaca in Peru.

Ch'imu Uru was discovered in 1929 by Lehmann, whose notes are in the Library of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin. Torero (1992) claims that Uru of Ch'imu is the most divergent of the three Uru–Chipaya languages.

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