Chaʼpalaa language

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Chaʼpalaa (also known as Chachi or Cayapa) is a Barbacoan language spoken in northern Ecuador by ca. 5,870 ethnic Chachi people.[1]

"Chaʼpalaa" 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.

Chaʼpalaa has agglutinative morphology, with a Subject-Object-Verb word order.

Chaʼpalaa 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 Template:Hamza.

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

Phonology

Cha'palaa has four vowels: /a, e, i, u/.[2] Cha'palaa has 23 consonant phonemes.[3][4]

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Dorsal Glottal
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References

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External links

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