Vilela language

Vilela
Native to	Argentina
Extinct	20 by 1981;[1] gone by 2011[2]
Language family	Lule–Vilela Vilela
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

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

1. Vilela language at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
2. Vilela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
3. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Vilela". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
4. Not to be confused with Niwaklé, which is also called Chulupí~Chunupí.

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.