ISO 639-3 vil | Language family Lule–VilelaVilela Glottolog vile1241 | |
Extinct 20 by 1981; gone by 2011 | ||
Vilela (Uakambalelté, Atalalá, Chulupí~Chunupí) 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:
References
Vilela language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA