Vilela language

{{Short description|Extinct language of Argentina}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Vilela

| nativename = {{lang|vil|Waqha}}

| states = Argentina

| extinct =

| ref = {{Citation |last=Crevels |first=Mily |title=Language endangerment in South America: The clock is ticking |date=2012-01-13 |work=The Indigenous Languages of South America |pages=167–234 |editor-last=Campbell |editor-first=Lyle |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110258035.167/html |access-date=2025-02-17 |publisher=DE GRUYTER |doi=10.1515/9783110258035.167 |isbn=978-3-11-025513-3 |editor2-last=Grondona |editor2-first=Verónica}}

| familycolor = American

| fam1 = Lule–Vilela

| iso3 = vil

| glotto = vile1241

| glottorefname = Vilela

| dia1 = Ocol

| dia2 = Chunupi

| dia3 = Sinipi

| ethnicity = Vilela ({{lang|vil|Waqha-umbaꞵelte}})

| map2 = Lang Status 01-EX.svg

| mapcaption2 = {{center|{{small|Vilela is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

| speakers2 =

| region = eastern Chaco

| altname = Uakambalelté

| map = Vilela language map.svg

| mapcaption = Map of the Vilela language

| speakers = 2 semispeakers

| date = 2007

}}

Vilela (Uakambalelté, Atalalá, Chulupí~Chunupí)Not to be confused with Niwaklé, which is also called Chulupí~Chunupí. is a moribund 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'. There were 2 semispeakers as of 2007.

The last Vilela people were absorbed into the surrounding Toba people and Spanish-speaking townsfolk.