Coahuilteco language

Coahuilteco
Native to	Mexico, United States
Region	Coahuila, Texas
Ethnicity	Quems, Pajalat, etc.
Extinct	not attested after 18th century
Language family	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

		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

Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.

↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Coahuilteco". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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.

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Other

Italics indicate extinct languages

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