Vilela language

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.

Dialects
Loukotka (1968) lists the following dialects of Vilela.


 * 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: