Taushiro is a nearly extinct language isolate of the Peruvian Amazon, spoken in the Department of Loreto near the Ecuadorian border. It remained largely undocumented until SIL International researcher Nectálí Alicea Ortiz began substantial fieldwork in the mid-1970s, following an initial 200-word glossary collected in 1971. By 2017 only one native speaker remained, Amadeo García García, and UNESCO classifies the language as critically endangered; Terrence Kaufman has noted tentative lexical connections to other Amazonian languages, but these remain contested and Taushiro is generally treated as an isolate.
Facts
RegionSpoken by the Taushiro (Pinche) people of the Peruvian Amazon near the Ecuadorian border. 1 Speaker CountOne named individual, Amadeo Garcia Garcia, is identified in the cited article as the last living speaker. Proto-Language StatusGenerally considered a language isolate with no known relatives; proposed lexical ties to Zaparoan, Kandoshi, Omurano, Tequiraca and Leco have not established a demonstrated family or a reconstructed proto-language. 1 In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Taushiro Language
Wikimedia FoundationClassification section
Taushiro is generally considered a language isolate, a language with no known relatives.
Lead paragraph
Taushiro, also known as Pinche or Pinchi, is a nearly extinct language isolate of the Peruvian Amazon near Ecuador.
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The last living speaker of Taushiro is Amadeo García García.
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