Muran languages
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The Muran languages make up a language family spoken in Brazil. The only surviving Muran language is Pirahã, with about 150 speakers. Linguistically, the Muran family is typified by agglutinativity, a very small number of phonemes (11 compared to over 40 in English), and the use of tones in its grammar structure.
Most Muran languages have died out due to the recent expansion of Brazilian Portuguese, mainly because they were spoken by so few people. Pirahã is now spoken by just 150 people in eight villages.
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