•Number of speakers: one
•Location: Northern Peru near the Tigre river and Aucayacu River in the state of Loreto. •Language Family: Isolate Taushiro is a nearly extinct language. Linguists Neftali Alicea Ortiz and Juanita Perez have been one of the few people to research the Taushiro Language, therefore there are not a many records of it. Characteristics: Taushiro is an agglutinating and melodic language that does not use bilabial or labio-dental consonants. Taushiro speakers can use one word to express ideas and concepts rather than using multiple words. For example: Atontutua = The ones that eat meat. It Uses: Postpositions instead of prepositions. VSO word order: In most sentences, Taushiro speakers would place the verb first, the subject second, and the object last. For example: English: Juan likes apples, Taushiro: Likes Juan apples. Counting system: Taushiro has a simple counting system that has words up to the number ten. They use their hands and words to count up ten, if they want to express a higher number than ten, they say the word "ashintu" and point to their toes. Table of numbers: 1. washikanto 2. ashini 3. washiunweantu 4. nekenene 5. ukontawa (all the hand ) 10. ashintu (many ) |
Here is a video of the last known speaker of Taushiro: Amadeo Garcia.
Words in Taushiro
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