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Cha'palaa (also known as Chachi or Cayapa) is a Barbacoan language spoken in northern Ecuador by ca. 3000 ethnic Chachi people.

Cha'palaa
Region	Ecuador
Native speakers	10,000 (2013)[1]
Language family	Barbacoan Southern? Cha'palaa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	cbi
Glottolog	chac1249
ELP	Cha'palaa

"Cha'palaa" means "language of the Chachi people." This language was described in part by the missionary P. Alberto Vittadello, who, by the time his description was published in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1988, had lived for seven years among the tribe.

Cha'palaa has agglutinative morphology, with a Subject-Object-Verb word order.

Cha'palaa is written using the Latin alphabet, making use of the following graphemes:

A, B, C, CH, D, DY, E, F, G, GU, HU, I, J, L, LL, M, N, Ñ, P, QU, R, S, SH, T, TS, TY, U, V, Y, and '

The writing system includes four simple vowels, and four double vowels:

Phonology

Cha'palaa has four vowels: /a, e, i, u/.[1] Cha'palaa has 22 consonant phonemes.[2]

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ
Stop	voiceless	p	t	tʲ	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	dʲ	g
Affricate			t͡s	t͡ʃ
Fricative		f	s	ʃ	χ
Glide				j	w
Liquid			ɾ	ʎ

References

External links

• Native Languages on Cha'palaachi, with links
• Cayapa (Intercontinental Dictionary Series)

На других языках

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- [en] Cha'palaa language

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[fr] Cayapa

Le cayapa (autonyme cha'palaachi) est une langue barbacoane parlée dans le nord-ouest de l'Équateur, dans la province d'Esmeraldas par 3 000 Chachis, anciennement appelés les Cayapas[1].

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[ru] Чапалачи

Чапалачи (каяпа, чачи) — один из барбакоанских языков. Число носителей — около 10 тыс. человек, проживающих на севере Эквадора, в провинции Эсмеральдас.

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