BAURE: AN ARAWAK LANGUAGE OF BOLIVIA INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF LATIN AMERICA (ILLA) This series, entitled Indigenous Languages of Latin America, is a result of the collabo- ration between the CNWS research group of Amerindian Studies and the Spinoza re- search program Lexicon and Syntax. LENGUAS INDÍGENAS DE AMÉRICA LATINA (ILLA) La serie Lenguas Indígenas de América Latina es el resultado de la colaboración en- tre el equipo de investigación CNWS de estudios americanos y el programa de inves- tigación Spinoza denominado Léxico y Sintaxis. Board of advisors / Consejo asesor: Willem Adelaar (Universiteit Leiden) Eithne Carlin (Universiteit Leiden) Pieter Muysken (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Leo Wetzels (Vrije Universiteit) Series editors / Editores de la serie: Mily Crevels (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Simon van de Kerke (Universiteit Leiden) Hein van der Voort (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) The word illa means ‘amulet’ in Aymara and Quechua. INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF LATIN AMERICA (ILLA) 6 BAURE AN ARAWAK LANGUAGE OF BOLIVIA Swintha Danielsen Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS) Universiteit Leiden The Netherlands 2007 CNWS PUBLICATIONS VOLUME 155 INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF LATIN AMERICA (ILLA) 6 CNWS publishes books and journals which advance scholarly research in Asian, Af- rican and Amerindian Studies. Correspondence should be addressed to: CNWS Publications, c/o Research School CNWS, Leiden University PO Box 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands.
[email protected]; www.cnwspublications.com Baure: An Arawak language of Bolivia Swintha Danielsen Leiden: CNWS Publications. (CNWS Publications, Vol. 155) ISBN: 978-90-5789-155-7 Subject headings: Linguistics; Latin America; Endangered Languages; Indigenous Languages Printing: Ridderprint, Ridderkerk Cover design: Arnoud Bernard, xpressie Cover photos: Swintha Danielsen © Copyright 2007 Research School CNWS Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands Copyright reserved.