Vilela language
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| Vilela | |
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| Native to | Argentina |
| Extinct | 20 by 1981;[1] gone by 2011[2] |
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Lule–Vilela
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| 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[edit]
Vilela appears to have the five vowels of Spanish and approximately the following consonants:
| m | n | |||
| b | d | dʒ | ɡ | |
| p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| pʼ | tʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | |
| f | s | ʃ | x | |
| ɬ | ||||
| w | l | j | ||
| r |
Notes[edit]
- ^ Vilela language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ Vilela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Vilela". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ^ Not to be confused with Niwaklé, which is also called Chulupí~Chunupí.
References[edit]
- Lozano, Elena (1970). Textos Vilelas. La Plata: CEILP.
- Lozano, Elena (1977). Cuentos secretos vilelas: I. La mujer tigre. VICUS Cuadernos. Lingüística, Vol.I: 93-116.
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