Endangered Languages Project - Taushiro

Taushiro

^{[aka Pinche, Pinchi,]}

Classification: Isolate

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critically endangered

ALSO KNOWN AS		Pinche, Pinchi
CLASSIFICATION		Isolate, South American
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		trr
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Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
20
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Due to an epidemic disease in the same decade [1960s] and to the fact that most survivors have intermarried with non-Taushiro speakers and have adopted Spanish or a variety of Quechua, the language is now on the brink of extinction with 1 speaker out of an ethnic group of 20 (p.213).

DATE OF INFO: 2008

PLACES: Peru

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
About the single surviving Taushiro speaker: "He is only in his 50s, the youngest member of a family of speakers. And all the evidence that I've come across indicates that he is the sole living speaker."

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[About the single surviving Taushiro speaker]:" he is only in his 50s, the youngest member of a family of speakers. And all the evidence that I've come across indicates that he is the sole living speaker."

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
20
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
(Unchanged 2016.)

DATE OF INFO: 2002 (SIL)

PLACES: Peru;

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Off Tigre River, Aucayacu River, Ahuaruna River tributary.

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
1
Native speakers worldwide

Critically endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
7
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
20

PLACES: Peru

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Department of Loreto, Province of Loretos, Tigre District

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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