Tequiraca language

Tequiraca, also known as Abishira or Aewa, is an extinct language once spoken around Lake Vacacocha near the Napo River in Peru, where between fifty and eighty speakers were recorded in 1925. The language was presumed extinct by the mid-twentieth century, though in 2008 researchers located two elderly rememberers and recorded about one hundred sixty words and short phrases from them; most descendants of its speakers have since shifted to Kichwa and Spanish. Available data show Tequiraca to be unrelated to neighboring languages, though Terrence Kaufman proposed a distant connection to Canichana of Bolivia in 1994.