Vilela language

Vilela
Native to Argentina
Extinct 20 by 1981;[1] gone by 2011[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 vil
Glottolog vile1241[3]

Vilela (Uakambalelté, Atalalá, Chulupí~Chunupí)[4] is an extinct language last spoken in the Resistencia area of Argentina and in the eastern Chaco near the Paraguayan border. Dialects were Ocol, Chinipi, Sinipi; only Ocol survives. The people call themselves Waqha-umbaβelte 'Waqha speakers'.

The last Vilela people were absorbed into the surrounding Toba people and Spanish-speaking townsfolk.

Phonology

Vilela appears to have the five vowels of Spanish and approximately the following consonants:

mn
bddʒɡ
pttʃkʔ
pʼtʼtʃʼkʼ
fsʃx
ɬ
wlj
r

Notes

  1. ↑ Vilela language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  2. ↑ Vilela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Vilela". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. ↑ Not to be confused with Niwaklé, which is also called Chulupí~Chunupí.

References


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