Cacaopera language

Cacaopera
Native to El Salvador
Region Morazán Department
Ethnicity Cacaopera people
Extinct 20th century
Misumalpan
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ccr
Glottolog caca1247[1]
Map of El Salvador's Native American civilizations and their kingdoms:
  Kingdom of the Lenca people
  Kingdom of the Cacaopera people
  Kingdom of the Xinca people
  Kingdom Maya Poqomam people
  Kingdom of Maya Ch'orti' people
  Kingdom of the Alaguilac people
  Kingdom of the Mixe people
  Kingdom of the Mangue language
  Kingdom of the Pipil people

Cacaopera is an extinct language belonging to the Misumalpan family, formerly spoken in the department of Morazán in El Salvador. It was closely related to Matagalpa, and slightly more distantly to Sumo, but was geographically separated from other Misumalpan languages.

The last semi-speakers of Cacaopera lived in the 1970s.[2] All native speakers had died before this time.

Phonology

Consonants

Misumalpan consonant phonemes
Labial Coronal Dorsal
Nasal voiceless m̥ n̥ ŋ̥
voiced m n ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b d
Fricative s x
Liquid voiceless r̥ ɬ
voiced r l
Semivowel w ɥ

Vowels

Misumalpan vowel phonemes
Front Back
short long short long
Close i iː ɯ ɯː
Open a aː

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Cacaopera". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Campbell, Lyle (1973). "MesoAmerican Languages Collection of Lyle Campbell". Archive of the Indigenous Language of Latin America. University of Texas at Austin. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
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