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.
| 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 |
The last semi-speakers of Cacaopera lived in the 1970s.[1] All native speakers had died before this time.
Phonology
editConsonants
edit| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ŋ̥ | |
| voiced | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d | |||
| Fricative | s | x | |||
| Liquid | voiceless | r̥ | ɬ | ||
| voiced | r | l | |||
| Semivowel | w | ɥ | |||
Vowels
edit| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i | iː | ɯ | ɯː |
| Open | a | aː | ||
References
edit- ^ 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
edit- 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.
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