Endangered Languages Project - Resígaro

Resígaro

^{[aka Resigaro, Resígero,]}

Classification: Arawakan

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critically endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Resigaro, Resígero
CLASSIFICATION		Arawakan, Northern Arawakan, Upper Amazon
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		rgr
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS		Aikhenvald (1999a:70) lists Resígaro as extinct.

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Information from: “Personal Communication on Resígaro” . Frank Seifart (2017)

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
In response to recent reports on the murder of the last woman speaker of Resígaro, Rosa Andrade, Dr. Seifart has confirmed that her brother, Pablo Andrade, is the last fully fluent speaker of Resígaro.

DATE OF INFO: 2017

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
14
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
The Resygaro group seems to have dissolved within the Bora and Ocaina communities in which they settled.

DATE OF INFO: 1976

PLACES: Peru

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: In the northeastern Bora and Ocaina communities Puerto Isago and Brillo Nuevo.

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
3
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
14
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
14
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(Unchanged 2016.)

DATE OF INFO: 1976 (SIL)

PLACES: Peru;

PLACES: Peru

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Department of Loreto, Peru.

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Resígaro is spoken today by only two fully fluent speakers who live in the Ocaina village of Nueva Esperanza, Ampiyacu River, Loreto, northeastern Peru, at 3 0 25'35 South and 71 0 59'37 West.

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
2
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
14

DATE OF INFO: 1993

PLACES: Peru (formerly Colombia)

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LOCATION INFORMATION

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Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press