0. The aim of this paper is to apply one aspect of density range typology-sentence profile-to the comparison of Colorado' texts (1) among themselves according to nonlinguistically affected speech varieties, (2) with Cayapa, a closely related language, (3) with Spanish, an unrelated language, and (4) with texts translated into Colorado by a foreign speaker. This latter point will be given special attention as a possible technique for measuring the smoothness of a translation. For this study two hundred sentences, comprising ten units, of native-spoken Colorado text were used. These include eight units of twenty sentences each from eight texts, one unit composed of three sequences with a combined total of twenty sentences, and one unit of twenty isolated sentences overheard in Colorado conversations. All is