Mure is an extinct language of

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. It was long considered a Chapacuran language, but the similarities are few, and are likely loans, as the Mure were missioned together with speakers of Chapacuran languages. Apart from those few words, the languages are "utterly different" according to ''

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'', a view that is shared by Birchall (2013). The Mure lived in the

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. They mostly resided in San Simón Mission, with some also living in San Francisco de Borja Mission together with the Movima. Neighbors of the Mure included the Rokorona.

Texts

Mure is attested only by a few surviving texts of the

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, and

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.Teza, Emile. 1868. ''Saggi Inediti di lingue Americane''. Annali delle Università Toscane (parte prima): Scienze Neologiche X. 117-143. The texts have been analyzed by Georges de Crequi-Montfort and Paul Rivet (1913).de Créqui-Montfort, Georges and Paul Rivet. 1913
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''Journal de la Société des Américanistes'' X: 119-172. There are also sporadic mentions of the Mure language by

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(1800: 251) and (1770).Cosme Bueno. 1770. ''Descripción del Obispado de Santa Cruz''. (El conocimiento de los tiempos, ephemeride del año de 1771.) Lima: En la Imprenta Real; Calle de Palacio. 56pp. The texts below are reproduced from Teza (1868). Interlinear analyses are adapted from de Crequi-Montfort & Rivet (1913), with the original French glossing also included.

Pater Noster

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Ave Maria

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Nicene Creed

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Basic vocabulary

Mure basic vocabulary items selected from the glossed interlinear texts above: :

References

{{Languages of Bolivia Language isolates of South America Languages extinct in the 1910s Mamoré–Guaporé linguistic area