Endangered languages

Endangered languages

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Huaorani

Language; Endangered languages

The Huaorani (Waorani) language, commonly known as Sabela (also Wao, Huao, Auishiri, Aushiri) is a language isolate spoken by the Huaorani people, an indigenous group living in the Amazon Rainforest ...

Teteté

Language; Endangered languages

Teteté is an extinct Tucanoan language that was spoken in Ecuador close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. It was also formerly spoken in Colombia, but is now extinct there. It was spoken by the ...

U'wa

Language; Endangered languages

Commonly known as Tunebo, is a Chibchan language spoken by between 1,800 and 3,600 of the U'wa people of Colombia, out of a total population of about 7,000. It has 4 dialects: Duit, Sinsiga, Tunebo ...

Candoshi-Shapra

Language; Endangered languages

Candoshi-Shapra (also known as: Candoshi, Candoxi, Kandoshi, and Murato) is an indigenous American language isolate spoken by several thousand people in western South America along the Chapuli, ...

Capanahua

Language; Endangered languages

Capanahua or Kapanawa is a declining indigenous American language of the Panoan family spoken in western South America by a few hundred aboriginal people. The language is spoken by the 400 strong ...

Iquito

Language; Endangered languages

Iquito is a highly endangered Zaparoan language from Peru using the Roman script. Of the ethnic Iquito population of 500, as of 2006, there are 25 fluent or native speakers, all of whom are over 55 ...

Iñapari

Language; Endangered languages

Iñapari is a critically endangered indigenous South American language spoken by just two hundred people in Perú along the Las Piedras river near the mouth of the Sabaluyoq river. The language is ...