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:
m | n | | | - |
b | d | dʒ | ɡ | - |
p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
pʼ | tʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | - |
f | s | ʃ | x | - |
| ɬ | | | - |
w | l | j | | - |
| r | | | - |