Uru of Chʼimu is an extinct dialect of Uru or distinct Uru–Chipaya language once spoken by the Uros, an Indigenous people, who live on reed islands in Puno Bay in western Lake Titicaca in Peru. The language is known only from 324 words.
| Uru of Chʼimu | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peru |
| Region | Lake Titicaca, east of Puno |
| Ethnicity | Uru people |
| Extinct | after 1929 |
Uru–Chipaya
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | tsim1260 |
History
editDocumentation
editChʼimu Uru was first identified in 1929 by Walter Lehmann, whose notes, comprising 324 words and some very basic grammatical notes,[1] are in the Library of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin. Torero (1992) claims that Uru of Chʼimu is the most divergent of the three Uru–Chipaya languages.[2]
References
edit- ↑ Hannß, Katja (2014-07-01). "The Uru of Chʼimu: an investigation of Walter Lehmann's material". STUF - Language Typology and Universals. 67 (2): 175–211. doi:10.1515/stuf-2014-0013. ISSN 2196-7148.
- ↑ "Revista Andina 19 · cendoc.chirapaq.org.pe". cendoc.chirapaq.org.pe. Retrieved 2026-05-25.
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