Vilela (Uakambalelté, Atalalá, Chulupí~Chunupí)[2] 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'.
Vilela | |
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Native to | Argentina |
Extinct | 20 in 1981; extinct in 2007[1] |
Lule–Vilela
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | vil |
Glottolog | vile1241 |
ELP | Vilela |
The last Vilela people were absorbed into the surrounding Toba people and Spanish-speaking townsfolk.
Loukotka (1968) lists the following dialects of Vilela.[3]
Vilela appears to have the five vowels /a e i o u/ of Spanish and approximately the following consonants:
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | |||||
Plosive | voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ɢ | |
voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | q | ʔ | |
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | qʼ | ||
Fricative | central | f | s | ʃ | x | h | |
lateral | ɬ | ||||||
Approximant | w | l | j | ||||
Rhotic | r, ɾ |