The Teushen language is an indigenous language of Argentina, which may be extinct. It was spoken by the Teushen people, a nomadic hunter-gatherer people of Patagonia, who lived between the Puelche people to their north and the Tehuelche people to the south, who occupied the central part of the Tierra del Fuego region. The tribe is now extinct.

Teushen
Tehues (Teuéx)
RegionPatagonia
EthnicityTeushen people
Extinctca. 1950
Chonan?
  • Chon proper
    • Continental Chon
      • Teushen
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologteus1236
ELPTeushen

The language is thought to be related to the Selk'nam, Puelche, and Tehuelche languages. These collectively belong to the Chonan language family.[1]

In the early 19th century, some Tehuelche people also spoke Teushen.[2]

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Notes

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  1. ^ Adelaar and Muysken 556
  2. ^ Adelaar and Muysken, 581

References

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  • Adelaar, Willen F. H. and Pieter Muysken. The languages of the Andes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7.