Mure is an extinct language of Bolivia. It was long considered a

Chapacuran language The Chapacuran languages are a nearly extinct Native American language family of South America. Almost all Chapacuran languages are extinct, and the four that are extant are moribund. They are spoken in Rondônia in the southern Amazon Basin of ...

, 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

Jesuit Missions of Moxos The Jesuit Missions of Moxos are located in the Llanos de Moxos of Beni department in eastern Bolivia. Distinguished by a unique fusion of European and Amerindian cultural influences, the missions were founded as reductions or ''reducciones de in ...

. They mostly resided in San Simón Mission, with some also living in San Francisco de Borja Mission together with the

Movima Movima is a language that is spoken by about 1,400 (nearly half) of the Movima, a group of Native Americans that resides in the Llanos de Moxos region of the Bolivian Amazon, in northeastern Bolivia. It is considered a language isolate, as it h ...

. Neighbors of the Mure included the Rokorona.

Texts

Mure is attested only by a few surviving texts of the

Lord's Prayer The Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father or Pater Noster, is a central Christian prayer which Jesus taught as the way to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gosp ...

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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 Henri Georges Le Compasseur de Créqui-Montfort Marquis de Courtivron (27 September 1877 – 4 April 1966) was a French explorer, anthropologist, diplomat, businessman and sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 192 ...

and

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(1913).de Créqui-Montfort, Georges and Paul Rivet. 1913
Linguistique Bolivienne: La Famille Linguistique Čapakura
''Journal de la Société des Américanistes'' X: 119-172. There are also sporadic mentions of the Mure language by

Lorenzo Hervás y Panduro Lorenzo may refer to: People * Lorenzo (name) Places Peru * San Lorenzo Island (Peru), sometimes referred to as the island of Lorenzo United States * Lorenzo, Illinois * Lorenzo, Texas * San Lorenzo, California, formerly Lorenzo * Lorenzo State ...

(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

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