Cacaopera language
Extinct Misumalpan language of El Salvador
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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.
| Cacaopera | |
|---|---|
| Native to | El Salvador |
| Region | Morazán Department |
| Ethnicity | Cacaopera people |
| Extinct | 1974[1] |
Misumalpan
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| 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. | |
The last semi-speakers of Cacaopera lived in the 1970s; none of them native speakers,[2][3] the last of them died in 1974.[1]