Moré language (Bolivia)

Moré
Itene
Native toBolivia
RegionBeni Department
Native speakers
45 (2012–2020)
Chapacuran
  • Moré languages
    • Moré
Dialects
Official status
Official language in
 Bolivia
Language codes
ISO 639-3ite
Glottologiten1243
ELPItene
Moré is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Moré (or Itene) is a Chapacuran language of Bolivia. Cojubím is an extinct dialect of Moré. Itoreauhip has been classified variously as a dialect or an independent language.

Phonology

The language's phonology was described by Geralda Angenot de Lima in her 2002 doctoral thesis and in her 1997 masters dissertation (reproduced as a journal article in 2013) where she presented a reconstruction of Proto-Chapacura with analyses of all languages in the family, however her analysis differs significantly across the two texts.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Moré at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ↑ Angenot de Lima, Geralda (2002). Description Phonologique, Grammaticale et Lexicale du Moré, Langue Amazonienne de Bolivie et du Brésil (PDF) (in French). Vol. 1. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden dissertation. p. 67.
  3. ↑ Angenot de Lima, Geralda (2013-08-23). "FONOTÁTICA E FONOLOGIA DO LEXEMA PROTOCHAPAKURA". Revista Eletrônica Língua Viva (in Brazilian Portuguese). 3 (1) 1. ISSN 2237-9800. See pages 31-37 of the article for discussion of Moré phonology.