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| Coahuilteco | ||
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| Spoken in: | Mexico, United States | |
| Region: | northeastern Mexico, Texas | |
| Language extinction: | mid-20th century | |
| Language family: | language isolate Coahuilteco |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | nai | |
| ISO 639-3: | xcw | |
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Coahuilteco (also Pajalate) was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. It was spoken by one tribe of a group of American Indian hunter-gatherers named the Quems.
Coahuilteco is now extinct.
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Sounds
Consonants
| Bilabial | Inter- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labial | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||
| Plosive | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ||||
| ejective | p’ | t’ | k’ | k’ʷ | (ʔ) | ||||
| Affricate | plain | ts | tʃ | ||||||
| ejective | ts’ | tʃ’ | |||||||
| Fricative | (θ) | s | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | |||
| Approximant | plain | l | j | w | |||||
| ejective | l’ | ||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i / iː | u / uː | |
| Mid | e / eː | o / oː | |
| Open | a / aː |
Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.
See also
External links
- Coahuiltecan Indians
- Reassessing Cultural Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas — Chapter 8: Linguistics
Bibliography
- Goddard, Ives (Ed.). (1996). Languages. Handbook of North American Indians (W. C. Sturtevant, General Ed.) (Vol. 17). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9.
- Mithun, Marianne. (1999). The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
- Sturtevant, William C. (Ed.). (1978-present). Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 1-20). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. (Vols. 1-3, 16, 18-20 not yet published).
- Troike, Rudolph. (1996). Coahuilteco (Pajalate). In I. Goddard (Ed.), Languages (pp. 644-665). Handbook of North American Indians. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution.
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