Mure is an extinct language isolate once spoken in the Beni Department of what is now Bolivia, by a people who lived within the Jesuit Missions of Moxos, chiefly at the San Simon mission and also at San Francisco de Borja. It survives only through a handful of religious texts, including translations of the Lord's Prayer, the Hail Mary, and the Nicene Creed, analyzed by Georges de Crequi-Montfort and Paul Rivet in 1913. Mure was long grouped with the Chapacuran languages because its speakers lived alongside Chapacuran-speaking missions, but the shared vocabulary appears to be limited borrowing rather than genetic relationship, and modern classifications, including Glottolog, treat Mure as an isolate.
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