Coahuilteco language
Coahuilteco was one of the Pakawan languages that was spoken in southern Texas (United States) and northeastern Coahuila (Mexico). It is now extinct.
Coahuilteco | |
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Native to | Mexico, United States |
Region | Coahuila, Texas |
Ethnicity | Quems, Pajalat, etc. |
Extinct | not attested after 18th century |
Hokan ?
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xcw |
xcw | |
Glottolog | coah1252 [1] |
![]() Coauhuilteco language | |
Classification
Coahuilteco was grouped in an eponymous Coahuiltecan family by John Wesley Powell in 1891, later expanded by additional proposed members by e.g. Edward Sapir. Ives Goddard later treated all these connections with suspicion, leaving Coahuilteco as a language isolate . Manaster Ramen (1996) argues Powell's original more narrow Coahuiltecan grouping is sound, renaming it Pakawan in distinction from the later more expanded proposal.
Sounds
Consonants
Bilabial | Inter- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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plain | labial | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||||
Plosive | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ||||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | (ʔ) | ||||
Affricate | plain | ts | tʃ | ||||||
ejective | tsʼ | tʃʼ | |||||||
Fricative | (θ) | s | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | |||
Approximant | plain | l | j | w | |||||
glottalized | lʼ |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i / iː | u / uː | |
Mid | e / eː | o / oː | |
Open | a / aː |
Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.[2]
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See also
- Coahuiltecan languages
- Coahuiltecan people
References
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Coahuilteco". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Troike, 1996
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.
- Manaster Ramen, Alexis. (1996). Sapir's Classifications: Coahuiltecan. Anthropological Linguistics 38/1, 1–38.
- 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.
External links
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Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:Coahuilteco word list |
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