Teushen language

Teushen
Tehues (Teuéx)
Native toArgentina
RegionChubut
EthnicityTehues
Extinct1970s
Chonan?
  • Chon proper
    • Continental Chon
      • Teushen
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologteus1236
ELPTeushen

The Teushen language was an indigenous language of Argentina, possibly now 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, occupying the central part of the Chubut region; they are now extinct.

The language is related to the Selkʼnam, Gününa Yajüch, and Tehuelche languages. These collectively belong to the Chonan language family.: 556 

In the early 19th century, some Tehuelche people also spoke Teushen.: 581 

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Clairis, Christos (1985-12-31), "20. Indigenous Languages of Tierra del Fuego", in Klein, Harriet E. Manelis; Stark, Louisa R. (eds.), South American Indian Languages, University of Texas Press, pp. 753–783, doi:10.7560/775923-021, ISBN 978-1-4773-0025-1, retrieved 2026-05-26
  2. 1 2 Adelaar, Willem F. H.; Muysken, Pieter (2010). The languages of the Andes. Cambridge language surveys (Digitally printed version (with corr.), [Nachdr.] ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-521-36275-7.