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Vilela language

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Vilela
Native toArgentina
Extinct20 in 1981; extinct in 2007[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3vil
Glottologvile1241
ELPVilela

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'.

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

Dialects

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Loukotka (1968) lists the following dialects of Vilela.[3]

Phonology

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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
Nasal m n
Plosive voiced b d ɡ ɢ
voiceless p t k q ʔ
ejective tʃʼ
Fricative central f s ʃ x h
lateral ɬ
Approximant w l j
Rhotic r, ɾ

Notes

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  1. ^ Vilela at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Not to be confused with Niwaklé, which is also called Chulupí~Chunupí.
  3. ^ Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. pp. 53.

References

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  • 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.
  • Golluscio, Lucia A. and Raoul Zamponi (2019). El vilela del siglo XVIII. Indiana 36. 43-68, A1-A56.