Taushiro_language
Taushiro language
Language isolate of the Peruvian Amazon
Taushiro, also known as Pinche or Pinchi, is a nearly extinct possible language isolate of the Peruvian Amazon near Ecuador. In 2000 SIL counted one speaker in an ethnic population of 20. Documentation was done in the mid-1970s by Neftalí Alicea. The last living speaker of Taushiro, Amadeo García García, was profiled in The New York Times in 2017.[3]
The first glossary of Taushiro contained 200 words and was collected by Daniel Velie in 1971.[3]