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Arabela

Arabela is a Zaparoan language spoken in Peru, by about 50 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.

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Arabela · 2.0°S 75.1°W

Arabela is a nearly extinct indigenous American language of the Zaparoan family spoken in two Peruvian villages in tropical forest along the Napo tributary of the Arabela river.

Also known as Chiripuno and Chiripunu, it is spoken by fewer than 50 people out of an ethnic population of about 400.

Since there are so few speakers of Arabela left, its speakers speak either Spanish or Quechua as a second language. The literacy rate for Arabela as a first language is about 10–30%, and about 50–75% for a second language. It uses a SOV word order.

From Wikipedia · Arabela language · CC BY-SA 4.0

Written down

Pueyano pa quishacari, puetunu pajaniyajanaa mariyata miishiya maninia, maja sooshiya tamonu. Puetunu pueyajanaari niishitiajaraca, jiuujiaaracanio pueyacua pa taraajenura. Naarate maninia pa jiyanootioore juhua pa tapueyocuaca.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR in Unicode).

Words in Arabela

MeaningWordRomanization
personpueyEno*
namesesa*
eyenamixia*
earnumogo*
nosenaxagua*
toothgiExa*
tongueniti*
handxuaSigiE*
bloodnanaga*
bonenugu*
skinSoge*
kneemoxogua*
breastgitia*
livergowa*
watermohuaca
firemani*
sunpananu*
starrixia*
stonesaxia*
mountaintuwanau*
rivermoo
treenana*
leafxamasu*
nightniugua*
dogserusare*
fishsapitiExa*
lousesuguanaxa*
twogapigi*
Igua*
yougia*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

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Vocabulary

Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

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