| Cacaopera | |
| States: | El Salvador |
| Region: | Morazán Department |
| Ethnicity: | Cacaopera people |
| Extinct: | 20th century |
| Familycolor: | American |
| Fam1: | Misumalpan |
| Fam2: | Sumalpan |
| Fam3: | Matagalpan |
| Iso3: | ccr |
| Glotto: | caca1247 |
| Glottorefname: | Cacaopera |
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.
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Plosive | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Liquid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Front | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ | iː | pronounced as /ink/ | ɯː | |
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ | aː | |||