Záparo
[aka Záparo, Zápara, Kayapwe]Classification: Zaparoan
·critically endangered
- PLACES
- Ecuador
Language metadata
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Záparo, Zápara, Kayapwe, Zaparo, Kayapi, Záparo-Conambo, Sáparo-Konambo, Sápara |
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Zaparoan |
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ISO 639-3 |
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zro |
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Language information by source
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Information from: “"RAPID: Zaparo [zro] RAPID Documentation Project (ZRDP)" NSF DEL Abstract” . Bowser, Brenda (2011)
Information from: “"RAPID: Zaparo [zro] RAPID Documentation Project (ZRDP)" NSF DEL Abstract” . Bowser, Brenda (2011)
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 17th Edition (2013)” . Paul M. Lewis; Gary F. Simons; and Charles D. Fennig · Dallas, Texas: SIL International
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Critically endangered
60 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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5
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200
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20
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About 20 elderly Záparo still have some variable degree of knowledge of the language.
(Unchanged 2016.)
- DATE OF INFO
- 2007
- TRANSMISSION
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- MORE ON VITALITY
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Shifting to Quichua. Language revival effort. Speakers all over 70 years old.
- INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
- Classes in 2 schools.
- PLACES
- Ecuador
- ADDITIONAL COMMENTS
Extinct in Peru
Information from: “Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking” (167-234) . Crevels, Mily (2012) , Lyle Campbell and Veronica Grondona · Mouton de Gruyter
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Severely endangered
20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
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~20
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346
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In spite of the much higher outcome of the 2001 census only about 20 elderly Záparo still have some variable degree of knowledge of the language. Crevels (2012:199) gives 176 speakers of a population of 346 (census figures).
- PLACES
- Ecuador
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
In the province of Pastaza, in the Amazonian region, between
the Curaray River and the lower course of the Bobanaza – principally along the Conambo River – in the Montalvo area.
Information from: “The World Atlas of Language Structures” . Bernard Comrie and David Gil and Martin Haspelmath and Matthew S. Dryer · Oxford University Press