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Encyclopedia > Coahuilteco

Coahuilteco (also Pajalate) was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. A language isolate is a natural language with no demonstrable genetic relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been proved to descend from a common ancestor to any other language. ... State nickname: Lone Star State Other U.S. States Capital Austin Largest city Houston Governor Rick Perry Official languages None Area 696,241 km² (2nd)  - Land 678,907 km²  - Water 17,333 km² (2. ... The United Mexican States or Mexico ( Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos or México; regarding the use of the variant spelling Méjico, see section The name below) is a country located in North America, bordered to the north by the United States of America, to the southeast by Guatemala and Belize, to...


Coahuilteco is now extinct.

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Sounds

Consonants

  Bilabial Interdental Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
plain labial
Stop plain p   t     k  
ejective p’   t’     k’ k’ʷ (ʔ)
Affricate plain     ʦ ʧ        
ejective     ʦ’ ʧ’        
Nasal   m   n          
Fricative     (θ) s ʃ   x 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.


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See also: Coahuiltecan. Coahuiltecan A general group of people living in the southern Texas region near the Rio Grande. ...

  • Coahuiltecan Indians (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/CC/bmcah.html)
  • Reassessing Cultural Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas — Chapter 8: Linguistics (http://data2.itc.nps.gov/parks/saan/ppdocuments/san%20juan%20cultural%20study2.htm)

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.

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Handbook of Texas Online: (4132 words)
A language known as Coahuilteco exists, but it is impossible to identify the groups who spoke dialects of this language.
Coahuilteco was probably the dominant language, but some groups may have spoken Coahuilteco only as a second language.
García (1760) compiled a manual for church ritual in the Coahuilteco language.
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