Coahuilteco language

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Coahuilteco
Spoken in	Mexico, United States
Region	northeastern Mexico, Texas
Language extinction	mid-20th century
Language family	language isolate Coahuilteco
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	nai
ISO 639-3	xcw
Coauhuilteco language
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Coahuilteco (also Pajalate) was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. It was spoken by one tribe of a group of American Indian hunter-gatherers named the Quems.

Coahuilteco is now extinct.

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

[edit] Sounds

[edit] Consonants

		Bilabial	Inter- dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
							plain	labial
Nasal		m		n
Plosive	plain	p		t			k	kʷ
	ejective	p’		t’			k’	k’ʷ	(ʔ)
Affricate	plain			ts	tʃ
	ejective			ts’	tʃ’
Fricative			(θ)	s	ʃ		x	xʷ	h
Approximant	plain			l		j		w
	ejective			l’

[edit] Vowels

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

Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.

[edit] See also

• Coahuiltecan

[edit] External links

• Coahuiltecan Indians
• Reassessing Cultural Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas — Chapter 8: Linguistics

[edit] 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.