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Mura is a language of Amazonas, Brazil. It is famous for Pirahã, its remaining dialect. Linguistically, it is typified by agglutinativity, a very small number of phonemes (11 compared to over 40 in English), whistled speech, and the use of tone. In the 19th century, there were an estimated 30,000–60,000 Mura. It is now spoken by only 300 Pirahã people in eight villages. ==Dialects== Since at least Barboza Rodrigues (1892), there have been three ethnic names commonly listed as dialects of Mura, or even as Muran languages. The names are: * Bohurá, or ''Buxwaray'', the original form of the name 'Mura' * Pirahã, or ''Pirahá, Pirahán'', the name the remaining dialect goes by * Yahahí, also spelled ''Jahahi'' On the basis of a minuscule amount of data, it would appear that Bohurá (Mura proper) was mutually intelligible with Pirahã; however, for Yahahí we have only ethnographic information, and can only assume they spoke the same language as other Mura. The Mura/Bohurá endonym is ''Buhuraen'', according to Barboza Rodrigues (1892), or ''Buxivaray ~ Buxwarahay'', according to Tastevin (1923). This was pronounced ''Murá'' by their neighbors, the Torá and Matanawi. In his vocabulary, Rodrigues lists ''Bohura'' for the people and ''bhurai-ada'' 'Mura language' for the language, from the Mura of the Manicoré River; Tastevin has ''Bohurai'' and ''bohuarai-arase'' for the same. They also record, :''nahi buxwara araha'' 'That one is Mura' :''yane abahi araha buxwardi'' 'We are all Mura'〔Caution: these words need to be confirmed. The scanned text of Nimuendaju (1948) at the link has several errors, such as for , for , and for .〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mura language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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