Coahuilteco language

Coahuilteco

Spoken in Mexico, United States

Region Coahuila, Texas

Extinct mid-20th century

Language family

Language isolate

Language codes

ISO 639-3 xcw

Coauhuilteco language

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Coahuilteco (also Pajalate) was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas (United States) and northeastern Coahuila (Mexico). It was spoken by one tribe of a group of American Indian hunter-gatherers named the Quems.

Coahuilteco is now extinct.

1 Sounds
- 1.1 Consonants
- 1.2 Vowels
2 See also
3 External links
4 Bibliography

Sounds

Consonants

		Bilabial	Inter- dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
		Bilabial	Inter- dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	plain	labial	Glottal
Nasal		m		n
Plosive	plain	p		t			k	kʷ
Plosive	ejective	pʼ		tʼ			kʼ	kʷʼ	(ʔ)
Affricate	plain			ts	tʃ
Affricate	ejective			tsʼ	tʃʼ
Fricative			(θ)	s	ʃ		x	xʷ	h
Approximant	plain			l		j		w
	glottalized			lʼ

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i / iː		u / uː
Mid	e / eː		o / oː
Open		a / aː

Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.

External links

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.
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.