Coahuilteco language

Coahuilteco language
Coahuilteco
Spoken in Mexico, United States
Region Coahuila, Texas
Extinct mid-20th century
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xcw
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Coauhuilteco language

Coahuilteco (also Pajalate) was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas (United States) and northeastern Coahuila (Mexico). It was spoken by one tribe of a group of American Indian hunter-gatherers named the Quems.

Coahuilteco is now extinct.

Contents

Sounds

[citation needed]

Consonants

  Bilabial Inter-
dental
Alveolar Post-
alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
plain labial
Nasal m   n          
Plosive plain p   t     k  
ejective       kʷʼ (ʔ)
Affricate plain     ts        
ejective     tsʼ tʃʼ        
Fricative   (θ) s ʃ   x h
Approximant plain     l   j   w  
glottalized              

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

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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