Coahuilteco language

Coahuilteco
Native to Mexico, United States
Region Coahuila, Texas
Ethnicity Quems, Pajalat, etc.
Extinct not attested after 18th century
Hokan ?
  • Coahuilteco
Dialects
Pajalat
Language codes
ISO 639-3 xcw
Linguist list
xcw
Glottolog coah1252[1]

Coauhuilteco language

Coahuilteco was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas (United States) and northeastern Coahuila (Mexico). It is now extinct.

Sounds

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/   u/
Mid e/   o/
Open   a/  

Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.

See also

References

  1. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Coahuilteco". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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