Guerén (Guêren) is an extinct Botocudoan dialect of Brazil, related to Krenak. Today, several thousand Guerén people live in Olivença (now a district of Ilhéus), but they no longer speak the language. A single Borum individual was encountered in the winter of 1908 who knew the language.

Vocabulary

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