瓦奧語，通常被稱為 Sabela (別稱還有：Wao，Huao，Auishiri，Aushiri，Ssabela ; 自稱: Wao Terero；貶稱：Auka，Auca)是生活在厄瓜多爾亞馬遜雨林的Napo河與Curaray河之間的原住民瓦奧人使用的語言。該語言是一門孤立語言。在秘魯，有一小群說瓦奧語的未接觸部落。
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瓦奧語區分鼻元音和口元音。音節結構為(C)V，元音叢比較密集。
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瓦奧語有三個方言： Tiguacuna(Tiwakuna)方言、Tuei(Tiwi Tuei, Tiwi)方言, 和 Shiripuno方言。
Sabela何任何已知語言都沒有系屬關係。 但是， Terrence Kaufman認為它屬於 Yawan 語族。
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- Greenberg, Joseph H. (1987). Language in the Americas. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- Kaufman, Terrence. (1990). Language History in South America: What We Know and How to Know More. In D. L. Payne (Ed.), Amazonian Linguistics: Studies in Lowland South American languages (pp. 13–67). Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-70414-3.
- Kaufman, Terrence. (1994). The Native Languages of South America. In C. Mosley & R. E. Asher (Eds.), Atlas of the World's Languages (pp. 46–76). London: Routledge.
- Peeke, M. Catherine. (2003). A Bibliography of the Waorani of Ecuador. SIL International. Retrieved 2007 December 26 from https://web.archive.org/web/20121002142511/http://www.sil.org/silewp/2003/silewp2003-006.pdf
- Pike, Evelyn G and Rachel Saint. 1988. Workpapers Concerning Waorani discourse features. Dallas, TX: SIL.
- Rival, Laura. Trekking through History: The Huaorani of Amazonian Ecuador, Columbia University Press, 2002.
