Murato (Chholo) is the unattested but presumed language of the
Uros
The Uru or Uros () are an indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru. They live on a still-growing group of about 120 self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno. They form three main groups: the Uru-Chipaya, Uru-Murato, and Uru ...
of
Lake Poopó
Lake Poopó ( ) was a large saline lake in a shallow depression in the Altiplano in Oruro Department, Bolivia, at an altitude of approximately . Due to the lake's length and width (), it made up the eastern half of Oruro, known as a mining r ...
in Bolivia. The Murato have shifted to
Aymara
Aymara may refer to:
Languages and people
* Aymaran languages, the second most widespread Andean language
** Aymara language, the main language within that family
** Central Aymara, the other surviving branch of the Aymara(n) family, which today ...
, but preserve some Uru vocabulary.
[Alain Fabre 2005, "Uru-Chipaya", in: Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamicanos]
retrieved 2021/12/22.
References
{{Languages of Bolivia
Languages of Bolivia
Uru–Chipaya languages