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Coahuilteco

Coahuilteco (also Pajalate) was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.

Coahuilteco is now extinct.


Contents
1 Sounds

1.1 Consonants
1.2 Vowels

2 Links
3 Bibliography

Sounds

Consonants

  Bilabial Interdental Alveolar Post-alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
plain labial
Stop plain   t     k kʷ  
ejective p’   t’     k’ k’ʷ (ʔ)
Affricate plain     ʦ ʧ        
ejective     ʦ’ ʧ’        
Nasal   m   n          
Fricative     (θ) s ʃ   x xʷ h
Approximant           j   w  
Approximant,
lateral 		plain     l          
glottalized     l’          

Vowels

  Front Center Back
 High  i / iː   u / uː
 Mid  e / eː   o / oː
 Low    a / aː  

Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.

Links

See also: Coahuiltecan.


Bibliography

  • Goddard, Ives (Ed.). (1996). Languages. Handbook of North American Indians (W. C. Sturtevant, General Ed.) (Vol. 17). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-1604-8774-9.
  • 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.
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