Tequiraca–Canichana is a possible
language family
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proposed in
Kaufman
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(1994) uniting two erstwhile
language isolates,
Canichana of Bolivia and
Tequiraca of Peru, both of which are either extinct or nearly so.
[Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The native languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), ''Atlas of the world's languages'' (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.] The proposal is not included in Campbell (2012).
References
Proposed language families
Indigenous languages of the Americas
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Languages of Bolivia
Languages of Peru