Uru

Other names

Uchumataqu

Language code

ure

Location

16°37'12"S 68°58'12"W

Family

Uru-Chipaya

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Aspirated stop	pʰ	tʰ			kʰ	qʰ
Creaky stop	pʼ	tʼ			kʼ	qʼ
Plain stop	p	t tʷ			k kʷ	q
Affricate		ts	tʃ
Fricative		s			x		ɦ
Nasal	m	n
Approximant				j	w
Trill		r
Lateral		l		ʎ

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i iː		u uː
Mid	e eː		o oː
Low		a aː

Suprasegmental

None

Bibliography

Muysken, Pieter. 2000. Drawn into the Aymara mold? Notes on Uru grammar. In Hein van der Voort & Simon van de Kerke (eds.), Essays on the Indigenous Languages of Lowland South America, 99-109. Leiden: CNWS publications.

Hannß, Katja. 2008. Uchumataqu, the lost language of the Urus of Bolivia: A grammatical description of the language as documented between 1894 and 1952 (Indigenous Languages of Latin America 7). Leiden: CNWS publications.

Hannß, Katja. to appear. Uru and Chipaya. In Matthias Urban (ed.), The Oxford Guide to the Languages of the Central Andes. Oxford University Press.

Notes

This inventory reflects that found in Hannß (2008) since that source relies on a range of previous sources. The symbol /k̪/ represents a dentalized velar stop.