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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 30000–60000 Mura. It is now spoken by only 300 Pirahã people in eight villages.
