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Chipaya is a native South American language of the Uru–Chipaya language family. The only other language in the grouping Uru is considered by some to be a divergent dialect of Chipaya. Ethnologue lists the language vitality as vigorous with 1200 speakers out of an ethnic population of around 1800. Chipaya has been influenced considerably by Aymara Quechua and more recently Spanish with a third of its vocabulary having been replaced by those languages.