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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.Following Tovar (1961) Loukotka (1968) and Tovar (1984) Kaufman (1994) notes that while Taushiro has been linked to the Zaparoan languages it shares greater lexical correspondences with Kandoshi and especially with Omurano.