zaparoan, or "saparoan", is a family of languages. within this group, there are five separate languages: coronado, omurano, andoa, gae and "záparo". more than a dozen extinct tribes spoke the zaparoan languages. the only zaparoan languages and dialects alive in modern times are iquitos, sabela and záparo. iquitos is spoken by 500 people in peru and the dialect sabela is spoken by approximately 100 people in ecuador.