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, none of them native speakers, died in 1974.
Phonology Consonants +Cacaopera consonant phonemesBilabialDento-alveolarPalatalVelarPlosiveFricativeNasalLateralTrillSemivowel
Vowels +Misumalpan vowel phonemesFrontBackCloseOpen
Suprasegmentals Stress is phonemic in Cacaopera.
Lexicon Lyle Campbell noted loanwords in Cacaopera and Matagalpa from both Spanish and Nawat, as well as lexical similarities to Lencan, Xincan and Kʼicheʼ.
References
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.