Cha'palaa

Barbacoan language spoken in northern Ecuador by ca. 3000 ethnic Chachi people
Language language Q2591329
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Cha'palaa

Summary

Cha'palaa is a language[1]. Cha'palaa ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Cha'palaa is in the country of Ecuador[3].
  • Cha'palaa's instance of is recorded as language[4].
  • Cha'palaa's instance of is recorded as modern language[5].
  • Cha'palaa is a type of Cayapa-Colorado[6].
  • Cha'palaa's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Chachi language[7].
  • Cha'palaa's number of speakers, writers, or signers is recorded as {'amount': '+10000'}[8].
  • Cha'palaa's UNESCO language status is recorded as 3 definitely endangered[9].
  • Cha'palaa's indigenous to is recorded as Esmeraldas Province[10].
  • Cha'palaa's exact match is recorded as http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CBI[11].
  • Cha'palaa's Ethnologue language status is recorded as 6b Threatened[12].
  • Cha'palaa's linguistic typology is recorded as agglutinative language[13].
  • Cha'palaa's linguistic typology is recorded as subject–verb–object[14].

Why It Matters

Cha'palaa ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24 views/month).[2] Cha'palaa has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] Cha'palaa is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . unesco.org. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Ethnologue. wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Cha'palaa. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/cha-palaa
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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Linguistic typology agglutinative language, subject–verb–object
    Unesco language status 3 definitely endangered
    Subclass of Cayapa-Colorado
    Ethnologue language status 6b Threatened
    + 9 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|1 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007536814405171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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