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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 500.Since there are so few speakers of Arabela left its speakers speak either Spanish or Quechua as a second language.