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{{Short description|Barbacoan language of Ecuador}} |
{{Short description|Barbacoan language of Ecuador}} |
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{{Infobox language |
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|name=Chaʼpalaa |
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|region=[[Ecuador]] |
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|speakers=5,870 |
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|iso3=cbi |
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|glotto=chac1249 |
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'''Chaʼpalaa''' (also known as Chachi or Cayapa) is a [[Barbacoan languages|Barbacoan language]] spoken in northern [[Ecuador]] by ca. 9,000 ethnic [[Chachi people]].<ref name=e25/> |
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"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. |
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Chaʼpalaa has [[Agglutination|agglutinative]] morphology, with a Subject-Object-Verb word order. |
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Chaʼpalaa is written using the Latin alphabet, making use of the following graphemes: |
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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 |
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 {{hamza}}. |
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The writing system includes four simple vowels, and four double vowels: |
The writing system includes four simple vowels, and four double vowels: |
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Latest revision as of 04:54, 17 May 2023
| Chaʼpalaa | |
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| Region | Ecuador |
Native speakers | 5,870 (2012)[1] |
Barbacoan
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | cbi |
| Glottolog | chac1249 |
| ELP | Cha'palaa |
Chaʼpalaa (also known as Chachi or Cayapa) is a Barbacoan language spoken in northern Ecuador by ca. 9,000 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 ʼ.
The writing system includes four simple vowels, and four double vowels:
Phonology
[edit]Cha'palaa has four vowels: /a, e, i, u/.[2] Cha'palaa has 22 consonant phonemes.[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
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| 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
[edit]- ^ a b Chaʼpalaa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Floyd, Simeon (9 June 2015). "Other-initiated repair in Cha'palaa" (PDF). DeGruyter. Open Linguistics.
- ^ Floyd, Simeon (2014). "Four Types of Reduplication in the Cha'palaa Language of Ecuador" (PDF). Voort-Goodwin.
External links
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| Indigenous languages | |
| Spanish varieties | |
| Sign languages | |
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