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Judi Lynn

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Tue Feb 7, 2017, 04:25 AM Feb 2017

Peru in fight to save its endangered languages

Peru in fight to save its endangered languages
07 Feb 2017 - 8:56





AFP

Lima: Amadeo Garcia has no one left to talk to in his mother tongue, Taushiro.

Neither does Pablo Andrade, the last living speaker of Resigaro.

The two indigenous languages are among 17 that are critically endangered in Peru, where modern life's advance into the isolated Amazon basin region has wiped out many native peoples' way of life, and their languages along with it.

Garcia, 67, is the last living Taushiro, an indigenous group native to northern Peru that was decimated by malaria, conflicts with rubber tappers and toxic oil spills in its rivers.

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