Coahuilteco | ||||
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Spoken in | Mexico, United States | |||
Region | Coahuila, Texas | |||
Extinct | mid-20th century | |||
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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.
Contents |
Bilabial | Inter- dental |
Alveolar | Post- alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
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plain | labial | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||||
Plosive | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ||||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | (ʔ) | ||||
Affricate | plain | ts | tʃ | ||||||
ejective | tsʼ | tʃʼ | |||||||
Fricative | (θ) | s | ʃ | x | xʷ | h | |||
Approximant | plain | l | j | w | |||||
glottalized | lʼ |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i / iː | u / uː | |
Mid | e / eː | o / oː | |
Open | a / aː |
Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.