Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Chachi

SOURCE

Universal Human Rights Initiative

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Cha'palaa (also known as Chachi or Cayapa) is a Barbacoan language spoken in northern Ecuador by ca. 3000 ethnic Chachi people

USAGE BY COUNTRY

Ecuador

BACKGROUND

"Cha'palaa" means "language of the Chachi people." This language was described in part by the missionary P. Alberto Vittadello, who, by the time his description was published in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1988, had lived for seven years among the tribe.