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Should this include the fact that the Uros have black blood and believe themselves to be from another planet? Any quick perusal of a book by Erich von Daniken should turn up all the background research you need.

Is it Uro or Uros?

The article seems to use both Uro and Uros as the singular in different places. Uro in the main text, but "Uros Island" on the image caption. Or are both of them correct? Haplolology ^Talk/_{Contributions} 12:38, 15 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's actually Urus —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.15.36.80 (talk) 17:35, 23 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it is Uros. I just returned from a visit there and confirm this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.93.126.242 (talk) 21:06, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Well, the Britannica article (which we give as a reference) calls them Uru. Another case of "no single right answer when transliterating other languages" I suspect. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 23:10, 13 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Uro is singular and Uros is plural as said above. However I also believe that Uru is more widespread among anthropologists, because the name Uru is an Aymaran word to describe this ethnic group and the Aymara language in its 1984 official unified alphabet has no "o". Yet I found this information about their name:

Arturo Posnansky (1873-1946), considered the father of archeology in Bolivia, writes textually: “It has been asked to the Urus, if the name of their race was trully Uru, and they answered that it was the way Aymaras called them as an insult, because they go during the night to fish and hunt, but that the true name of their lineage is kjotsuñi, which means lake men
— translated from Spanish

Besides, I was looking at the article and it lacks more information, it only refers to the Urus who migrated to the Lake Titicaca, those are the Uru Irohito, they lost their language Uchumataqu few decades ago being replaced by Aymara and Spanish [1]. However the largest populations are the Uru Chipaya who live in the area near the capital of the Uru nation, Santa Ana de Chipaya and still preserve their language Chipaya and the Uru-Muratos who live near the Lake Poopó.

Finally I'm not sure about the plurals (Uros, Uru-Muratos), perhaps it'd be more adequate to rename the article to Uru ethnic group or Uru people similar to what it has been done with the Aymara ethnic group, not sure I'll check on Wikipedia naming conventions, I think it's against WP:PLURAL, I'll work on this article in the next weeks and add more information there are plenty of studies that I've gathered about this ethnic group. Erebedhel - Talk 22:05, 14 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]