Cacaopera language
| Cacaopera | |
|---|---|
| Native to | El Salvador |
| Region | Morazán Department |
| Ethnicity | Cacaopera people |
| Extinct | 20th century[citation needed] |
Misumalpan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ccr |
| Glottolog | caca1247 |
Map of El Salvador's Native American civilizations and their kingdoms:
Kingdom of the Lenca people
Kingdom of the Cacaopera people
Kingdom of the Xinca people
Kingdom of the Alaguilac people
Kingdom of the Mixe people
Kingdom of the Mangue language
Kingdom of the Pipil people
Cacaopera is an extinct language belonging to the Misumalpan family, formerly spoken in the department of Morazán in El Salvador by the Cacaopera people. It was closely related to Matagalpa, and slightly more distantly to Sumo, but was geographically separated from other Misumalpan languages.
The last semi-speakers of Cacaopera lived in the 1970s.[1] All native speakers had died before this time.
Phonology[]
Consonants[]
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ŋ̥ |
| voiced | m | n | ŋ | |
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k |
| voiced | b | d | ||
| Fricative | s | x | ||
| Lateral Fricative | ɬ | |||
| Liquid | voiceless | r̥ | ||
| voiced | r | |||
| Lateral | l | |||
| Semivowel | w | ɥ | ||
Vowels[]
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i | iː | ɯ | ɯː |
| Open | a | aː | ||
References[]
- ^ Campbell, Lyle (1973). "MesoAmerican Languages Collection of Lyle Campbell". Archive of the Indigenous Language of Latin America. University of Texas at Austin. Archived from the original on July 1, 2016. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
External links[]
- Recording of a semi-speaker of Cacaopera from 1973, from the MesoAmerican Languages Collection of Lyle Campbell at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America.
Categories:
- Misumalpan languages
- Languages of El Salvador
- Extinct languages of North America
- Languages extinct in the 20th century
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs