Vilela language


Vilela 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.

Dialects

lists the following dialects of Vilela.
Vilela appears to have the five vowels of Spanish and approximately the following consonants:
mn-
bdɡ-
ptkʔ
tʃʼ-
fsʃx-
ɬ-
wlj-
r-