Murato (Chholo) is the language of the Uros of Lake Poopó in Bolivia. The Murato have shifted to Aymara, but preserve some vocabulary of their original language; a number of rememberers of the language were found, and some data was collected from them.Alain Fabre 2005, "Uru-Chipaya", in: Diccionario etnolingüístico y guía bibliográfica de los pueblos indígenas sudamicanos. retrieved 2021/12/22.

Geographical distribution The Uru-Murato live in three villages on the eastern shores of Lake Poopó, Llapallapani, located near Santiago de Huari, Villañeque, near Challapata, and Puñaca, near the city of Poopó.

History The Uru-Murato speak either Aymara, Quechua or Spanish, with a tendency to replace Aymara with Quechua. Three linguistic studies on the language exist; one by Barragán lists a total of 21 words and numerals from 1 to 10, another by Alavi Mamami (2008) presented at the XVIII Reunión Anual de Etnología, including 20 words and their equivalents in the Uru language of Irohito, and the numerals from 1 to 10 again, and a third recording an untranslated monlogue in the language from , a former leader of the Uru-Murato, though he claimed he did not know much of it. All three studies were conducted in different locations.

Name Choque referred to the language he recorded as , though he also called it , similarly to the Uru language of Irohito and the related Chipaya.

Classification Very few of the words in correspond with those in Uru-Chipaya. The following words are derived from Uru-Chipaya: +Uru-Chipaya vocabulary in ChhologlossChholodesignationxax chhuni qot chhunibirdwiskalabirdsvisklanakayoungthowa A number of Chholo words are also derived from Aymara: +Aymara vocabulary in ChhologlossChholobrotherjilasisterkullaka(too) muchanchakiwellwale- It is speculated that some of the non-Uru-Chipaya words were fabricated, though they could have also been inherited.

Morphology The following suffixes can be identified in Chholo, though without any indication of their grammatical meaning: +Chholo suffixesChholo -kcha- / -qcha -ksha- / -qsha -wa

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