Vilela language

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'.

Vilela
Native toArgentina
Extinct20 by 1981;[1] gone by 2011[2]
Language codes
ISO 639-3vil
Glottologvile1241[3]

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

Dialects

Loukotka (1968) lists the following dialects of Vilela.[5]

  • Chunupi - formerly spoken on the confluence of the San Francisco River and Bermejo River in the vicinity of La Encrucijada, Valtolema, Ortega, Esquina Grande and Laguna Colma.
  • Pasain - formerly spoken in the vicinity of Macapillo, Argentine Chaco.
  • Ocole - formerly spoken between Lacangayá and Laguna Colma.
  • Omoampa - formerly spoken from Ortega as far as Miraflores.
  • Macomita - once spoken west of the Juramento River, province of Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
  • Yecoamita - once spoken northwest of the Teuco River, Formosa province.
  • Sinipi - formerly spoken on the Bermejo River in the vicinity of Lacangayá.

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, eds. (2017). "Vilela". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Not to be confused with Niwaklé, which is also called Chulupí~Chunupí.
  5. Loukotka, Čestmír (1968). Classification of South American Indian Languages. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center. pp. 53.

References
  • 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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