Zaparoan | |
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Saparoan | |
Geographic distribution | western Amazon |
Linguistic classification | Saparo–Yawan ?
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Language codes | |
Glottolog | zapa1251 |
Zaparoan (also Sáparoan, Záparo, Zaparoano, Zaparoana) is an endangered language family of Peru and Ecuador with fewer than 100 speakers. Zaparoan speakers seem to have been very numerous before the arrival of the Europeans. However, their groups have been decimated by imported diseases and warfare, and only a handful of them have survived.