Zaparoan is a small, severely endangered family of the western Amazon basin in Peru and Ecuador, generally treated as an independent family though sometimes linked to the Saparo-Yawan languages. Around 39 Zaparoan-speaking tribes were recorded at the start of the 20th century, but disease and warfare following European contact reduced the family to a handful of documented languages, of which fewer than 100 speakers remain today across Záparo, with about 5 speakers, Arabela, with about 50, and Iquito, with about 35.
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Speaker CountSource states fewer than 100 speakers total; recorded as an upper-bound approximation, not a precise count. Proto-Language StatusReconstructed: Proto-Záparoan reconstructed by de Carvalho (2013) 1 In the Other Atlases
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Source Wikidata: Zaparoan
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Source Wikidata: Zaparoan
Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject is found.
Source Wikipedia: Zaparoan LanguagesLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Zaparoan (also Sáparoan, Záparo, Zaparoano, Zaparoana) is an endangered language family of Peru and Ecuador with fewer than 100 speakers.
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1. Wikipedia: Zaparoan Languages
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Zaparoan (also Sáparoan, Záparo, Zaparoano, Zaparoana) is an endangered language family of Peru and Ecuador with fewer than 100 speakers.
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Proto-Záparoan reconstructions by de Carvalho (2013):
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