| Cacaopera | |
|---|---|
| Native to | El Salvador |
| Region | Morazán Department |
| Ethnicity | Cacaopera people |
| Extinct | 19741 |
Misumalpan
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ccr |
| Glottolog | caca1247 |
 Map of El Salvador's Indigenous Peoples at the time of the Spanish conquest:
1. Pipil people, 2. Lenca, 3. Kakawira o Cacaopera people, 4. Xinca, 5. Maya Ch'orti' people, 6. Maya Poqomam people, 7. Mangue o Chorotega. | |
Cacaopera is an extinct Misumalpan language 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; none of them native speakers,23 the last of them died in 1974.1
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dento-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k |
| voiced | b | d | |||
| Fricative | s | x | |||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Trill | r | ||||
| Semivowel | w | j | |||
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Open | a |
Suprasegmentals
Stress is phonemic in Cacaopera.4
References
References
- "Cacaoperas o kakawiras – Ruta de Paz" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2026-05-07.
- 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.
- Campbell, Lyle (1975). "Cacaopera". Anthropological Linguistics. 17 (4): 146–153. ISSN 0003-5483.
- Bertoglia, Mafalda (1989). "La fonología de la lengua cacaopera". Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica. 15 (1): 115–125. doi:10.15517/rfl.v15i1.19199.
External links
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.