Uru language

Uru
Uru
Iru Itu
Uchumataqu
Native to	Bolivia
Region	Lake Titicaca, near the Desaguadero River
Ethnicity	230 Uru people (2007)
Extinct	2010 to 2012
Language family	Uru–Chipaya Uru;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ure
Glottolog	uruu1244
ELP	Uru
	Uru is classified as Extinct be the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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The Uru language, more specifically known as Iru-Itu, and Uchumataqu, is an extinct language formerly spoken by the Uru people. In 2004, it had 2 remaining native speakers out of an ethnic group of 140 people in the La Paz Department, Bolivia near Lake Titicaca, the rest having shifted to Aymara and Spanish. The language is close enough to the Chipaya language to sometimes be considered a dialect of that language.^{[citation needed]}

Uru is also called Ochosuma (Uchuzuma), a historical name for the Uru ethnic group.^[3]

In 2010, there was 1 single native speaker left of this language. By 2012 the language had no speakers left.

Olson (1964) mentions a variety of Uru, Uru of Ch'imu, spoken on the Isla del Sol in Lake Titicaca. It is not clear if this was a dialect of Iru Itu or a separate Uru language.

Identifying Uchumataqu

Since one of the Urus' names for their language was "Pukina", Uchumataqu has previously been mistakenly identified with Puquina.^[4] While the personal and possessive pronouns of the unrelated Puquina bear limited similarities to those of Arawakan languages,^[5] Uru differs drastically from Arawakan languages in its person-marking system and its morphology.^[4] The pronoun system of Uchumataqu is naturally very similar instead to its close relative Chipaya.^[6] Uchumataqu has also borrowed grammatical and lexical morphemes from prolonged exposure to Aymara,^[4] with which it is not related, however. Unlike Aymara, Uru is not polysynthetic and has a phonemic five-vowel system /a e i o u/, while Aymara has a three-vowel system /a i u/.^[4] One contrast between Uru and the related Chipaya is that Uru does not identify gender morphologically as Chipaya does.^[6]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar		Uvular	Glottal
		Labial	plain	lab.	Palatal	plain	lab.	Uvular	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	tʷ		k	kʷ	q
	aspirated	pʰ	tʰ			kʰ		qʰ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ			kʼ		qʼ
Affricate	voiceless		t͡s		t͡ʃ	t͡k
Affricate	ejective		t͡sʼ		t͡ʃʼ
Fricative			s			x			h
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Trill			r
Approximant	lateral		l		ʎ
Approximant	central				j		w

Vowels

	Front		Back
	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iː	u	uː
Mid	e	eː	o	oː
Open	a	aː

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References

^ ^a ^b Uru at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 19.
^ Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Danielsen, Swintha (2010). "Review of "Uchumataqu: The Lost Language of the Urus of Bolivia. A Description of the Language as Documented between 1894 and 1952. Indigenous Languages of Latin America"". Anthropological Linguistics. 52: 107–111. JSTOR 40929741.
^ Adelaar, Willem F. H. (2004). The Language of the Andes. Cambridge, GB: Cambridge Language Surveys. p. 353. ISBN 978-0-511-21050-1 – via Ebrary.
^ ^a ^b Pena, Jaime (2009). "Uchumataqu: The Lost Language of the Urus of Bolivia. A Grammatical Description of the Language as Documented between 1894 and 1952". Studies in Language. 33: 1012–1018. doi:10.1075/sl.33.4.10pen.
^ Hannß, Katja (2008). Uchumataqu: The lost language of the Urus of Bolivia: A grammatical description of the language as documented between 1894 and 1952. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Universiteit Leiden.
^ Hannss, Katja (2009). Uchumataqu (Uro). In Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken (eds.), Lenguas de Bolivia, Tomo I: Ambito Andino: La Paz: Plural Editores. pp. 79–115.

[e19-1] Uru at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)

[2] Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 19.

[Campbell-SAmerica-3] Campbell, Lyle (2012). "Classification of the indigenous languages of South America". In Grondona, Verónica; Campbell, Lyle (eds.). The Indigenous Languages of South America. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 2. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 59–166. ISBN 978-3-11-025513-3.

[:0-4] Danielsen, Swintha (2010). "Review of "Uchumataqu: The Lost Language of the Urus of Bolivia. A Description of the Language as Documented between 1894 and 1952. Indigenous Languages of Latin America"". Anthropological Linguistics. 52: 107–111. JSTOR 40929741.

[5] Adelaar, Willem F. H. (2004). The Language of the Andes. Cambridge, GB: Cambridge Language Surveys. p. 353. ISBN 978-0-511-21050-1 – via Ebrary.

[:1-6] Pena, Jaime (2009). "Uchumataqu: The Lost Language of the Urus of Bolivia. A Grammatical Description of the Language as Documented between 1894 and 1952". Studies in Language. 33: 1012–1018. doi:10.1075/sl.33.4.10pen.

[7] Hannß, Katja (2008). Uchumataqu: The lost language of the Urus of Bolivia: A grammatical description of the language as documented between 1894 and 1952. Leiden: Research School of Asian, African and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), Universiteit Leiden.

[8] Hannss, Katja (2009). Uchumataqu (Uro). In Mily Crevels and Pieter Muysken (eds.), Lenguas de Bolivia, Tomo I: Ambito Andino: La Paz: Plural Editores. pp. 79–115.

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