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SOURCE
Universal Human Rights Initiative
TOTAL SPEAKERS
Cha'palaa (also known as Chachi or Cayapa) is a Barbacoan language spoken in northern Ecuador by ca. 3000 ethnic Chachi people
USAGE BY COUNTRY
Ecuador
BACKGROUND
"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.