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Vilela (Uakambalelté, Atalalá, Chulupí~Chunupí)[3] 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 to	Argentina
Extinct	20 by 1981;[1] gone by 2011[2]
Language family	Lule–Vilela Vilela
Language codes
ISO 639-3	vil
Glottolog	vile1241
ELP	Vilela

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

Dialects

Loukotka (1968) lists the following dialects of Vilela.[4]

• 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 /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	dʒ	ɡ	ɢ
	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	q	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	tʃʼ	kʼ	qʼ
Fricative	central	f	s	ʃ	x		h
	lateral		ɬ
Approximant		w	l	j
Rhotic			r, ɾ

Notes

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

На других языках

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- [en] Vilela language

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[es] Idioma vilela

Vilela (Uakambalelté, Atalalá, Chulupí~Chunupí)[1] es una lengua extinta hablada por última vez en el área de Resistencia de Argentina y en el Chaco oriental cerca de la frontera Paraguaya. Los dialectos eran "Ocol, Chinipi y Sinipi".

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[ru] Вилела (язык)

Вилела (Atalalá, Chulupí~Chunupí, Uakambalelté, Vilela) — мёртвый индейский язык, принадлежащий языковой семье луле-вилела, на котором раньше говорили в городе Ресистенсия, около границы с Парагваем, на востоке центральной части провинции Гран-Чако в Аргентине. Также были диалекты околь, синипи, чинипи, из которых в настоящее время только жив диалект околь. Народ называет себя Waqha-umbaβelte — «говорящие на вакха» или «носители вакха».

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