Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Awa

Language; Endangered languages

Awa is a Barbacoan language spoken in northwestern South America. It has 21,000 speakers nearly all in the Colombian Pacific slopes, with 1,000 speakers in an adjacent area of Ecuador. Most males ...

Chachi

Language; Endangered languages

Cha' Palaachi also known as Chachi or Cayapa is a Barbacoan language spoken in northern Ecuador by ca. 3000 ethnic Chachi people. Cha'palaachi has an agglutinative morphology. It is also case ...

Cofán is the language of the Cofán people, an indigenous group native to Napo Province northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia, between the Guamués River (a tributary of the Putumayo River) and the ...

Huaorani

Language; Endangered languages

The Huaorani (Waorani) language, commonly known as Sabela (also Wao, Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri) is a language isolate spoken by the Huaorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon Rainforest ...

Teteté

Language; Endangered languages

Teteté is an extinct Tucanoan language that was spoken in Ecuador close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. It was also formerly spoken in Colombia, but is now extinct there. It was spoken by the ...

Zaparoan

Language; Endangered languages

Zaparoan (also Sáparoan, Záparo, Zaparoano, Zaparoana) is an endangered language family of Peru and Ecuador with fewer than 100 speakers. Zaparoan speakers seem to have been very numerous before the ...

Arawak

Language; Endangered languages

Arawak (Arowak, Aruák) is the eponymous language of the Arawakan language family. The term is often used to cover the closely related Taino language of the Caribbean islands. The ethnonym Lokono may ...