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What's it like being the last person to speak your language?
Amadeo García García is the last man in the world who can speak the Taushiro language. His tribe once numbered in the thousands in the Amazon basin in Peru. But the Taushiro have succumbed to the encroachment of people with guns and new diseases.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readAmadeo García García is the last man in the world who can speak the Taushiro language. His tribe once numbered in the thousands in the Amazon basin in Peru. But the Taushiro have succumbed to the encroachment of people with guns and new diseases.
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