Uru of Ch'imu is an extinct language of the Uros, an Amerindian people. Speakers lived on reed islands in Puno Bay in western Lake Titicaca in Peru.
Uru | |
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Uru of Ch'imu | |
Native to | Peru |
Region | Lake Titicaca, east of Puno |
Ethnicity | Uru people |
Extinct | (date missing) |
Language family | Uru–Chipaya
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
Glottolog | None |
Ch'imu Uru was discovered in 1929 by Lehmann, whose notes are in the Library of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin. Torero (1992) claims that Uru of Ch'imu is the most divergent of the three Uru–Chipaya languages.
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