Cotoname is a Southwesternlanguage family, spoken by Native Americansindigenous to the lower Rio Grande Valley of northeastern Mexico and extreme southern Texas (United States). It is believed to be a language isolate. The Southwestern United States or simply the Southwest is a region of the United States that is drier in weather than the adjoining Southern United States and Western United States; the population is less dense and, with moderate Mexican and American Indian components, more ethnically varied than neighboring areas. ... Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... Native Americans (also Indians, Aboriginal Peoples, American Indians, First Nations, Alaskan Natives, Amerindians, or Indigenous Peoples of America) are the indigenous inhabitants of The Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. ... It has been suggested that List of Native American tribes be merged into this article or section. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Prior to 1821, Texas was part of the Spanish colony of New Spain. ... A language isolate is a natural language with no demonstrable genetic relationship with other living languages; that is, one that has not been proven to descend from a common ancestor to any other language. ...
Indigenous languages of the Americas (or Amerindian Languages) are spoken by indigenous peoples from the southern tip of South America to Alaska and Greenland, encompassing the land masses which constitute the Americas. ... Comecrudan refers to a group of possibly related languages spoken in the southernmost part of Texas and in northern Mexico along the Rio Grande. ... Current distribution of Human Language Families Most languages are known to belong to language families (families hereforth). ... Native American languages are the indigenous languages of the Americas, spoken by Native Americans from the southern tip of South America to Alaska and Greenland. ...
Collectively, all these groups have come to be known as Coahuiltecans, but they spoke diverse dialects and languages, some of which were distantly related to one another at best.
Some of the major languages were Comecrudo, Cotoname, Aranama, Solano, Sanan, as well as Coahuilteco.
Some groups got along with one another and shared partially overlapping territories, particularly in the prickly pear season.
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