Coahuilteco (also Pajalate) was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Coahuilteco is now extinct.
Sounds
Consonants
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| Bilabial
| Interdental
| Alveolar
| Post-alveolar
| Palatal
| Velar
| Glottal
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| plain
| labial
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| Stop
| plain
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| t
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| k
| kʷ
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| ejective
| p’
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| t’
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| k’
| k’ʷ
| (ʔ)
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| Affricate
| plain
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| ʦ
| ʧ
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| ejective
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| ʦ’
| ʧ’
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| Nasal
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| m
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| n
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| Fricative
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| (θ)
| s
| ʃ
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| x
| xʷ
| h
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| Approximant
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| j
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| w
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Approximant,
lateral
| plain
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| l
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| glottalized
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| l’
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Vowels
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| Front
| Center
| Back
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| High
| i / iː
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| u / uː
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| Mid
| e / eː
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| o / oː
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| Low
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| a / aː
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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.
