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Coahuilteco
Coahuilteco (also Pajalate) was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Coahuilteco is now extinct.
| Contents |
Sounds
Consonants
| Bilabial | Interdental | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labial | ||||||||
| Stop | plain | t | k | kʷ | |||||
| ejective | p’ | t’ | k’ | k’ʷ | (ʔ) | ||||
| Affricate | plain | ʦ | ʧ | ||||||
| ejective | ʦ’ | ʧ’ | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||
| Fricative | (θ) | s | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | |||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||||
| Approximant, lateral | plain | l | |||||||
| glottalized | l’ | ||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Center | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i / iː | u / uː | |
| Mid | e / eː | o / oː | |
| Low | a / aː |
Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.
Links
See also: Coahuiltecan.
- 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 0-1604-8774-9.
- 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.
Categories: Language isolate | Extinct languages | Native American languages of the Southeast | Native American languages of the Southwest
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