History
In 1971 to 1972, there were only four adult and six child speakers of Resigaro left in Puerto Izango. Other people who identified as Resigaro could speak only Ocaina instead. One other woman who was married to a Bora could also speak Resigaro, but she rarely spoke the language at all.
On November 25, 2016, the last female speaker of Resígaro, Rosa Andrade Ocagane, was brutally murdered in a beheading at the age of 67. Her niece reported “She was beheaded. Her head was not found, neither her heart.”
The only other remaining speaker known is Andrade's brother, Pablo Andrade Ocagane, who still lives. He and his late sister had been preparing a project with the Ministry of Culture to document their language since October 2016, and to update books on grammar and an outdated dictionary made in the 1950s by the Summer Institute of Linguistics, that promoted the translation of the Bible.
Resígaro has many morphological borrowings from Bora, such as pronouns, number markings, and case markers. However, there are relatively few lexical loanwords.
