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    Desaguadero River. Chipaya has over a thousand speakers and sees vigorous use in the native community, but all other Uru languages or dialects are extinct...
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  • 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...
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  • Chipaya (endolinguonym Chipay taqu) is a native South American language of the UruChipaya language family. The only other language in the grouping, Uru...
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    Titicaca near Puno. They form three main groups: the Uru-Chipaya, Uru-Murato, and Uru-Iruito. The Uru-Iruito still inhabit the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca...
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    other important languages in Argentina with 200,000 speakers and 65,000 speakers respectively. Fifteen Indigenous American languages currently exist and...
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    other language families or isolates, but none is generally supported by linguists. Examples include linking Mayan with the UruChipaya languages, Mapuche...
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    Lencan languages of Central America. In the 1970s, it was proposed that the Uru-Chipaya languages of Bolivia could be related to the Mayan languages of Mesoamerica...
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    similarities with the Kechua, Kunza, Leko, Uru-Chipaya, Arawak, and Pukina language families due to contact. Aymaran languages have only three phonemic vowels /a...
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  • the native language of a few thousand Chileans. Jolkesky (2016) notes that there are lexical similarities with the Kunza, Mochika, Uru-Chipaya, Arawak,...
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  • obvious relatives among the languages of South America. There is some lexicon shared with Puquina and the UruChipaya languages, but these appear to be borrowings...
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