Migueleño Chiquitano

Migueleño Chiquitano (self-denomination: ózura [ˈo̞tsuɾḁ], literally 'our speech') is a variety of the Chiquitano language of the Macro-Jê family, which is remembered by several dozen people of the Chiquitano ethnicity in San Miguel de Velasco (Santa Cruz), Bolivia, as well as in neighboring villages.

Migueleño is closely related to other varieties of the Chiquitano language, such as Bésɨro and Eastern Chiquitano.^: 2 Its most salient phonological features include the occurrence of the voiceless velar fricative /x/ corresponding to the retroflex /ʂ/ of the other dialects and the merger of the palatalized counterparts of /p/ and /k/ as [c̠]. It is also the only variety of Chiquitano in which distinct first person singular prefixes have been documented for the male and female genderlects.