Coahuilteco
Coahuilteco was a language isolate once spoken in Mexico.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Coahuilteco was one of the Indigenous languages that was spoken in southern Texas (United States) and northeastern Coahuila (Mexico). It is now extinct, and is typically considered to be a language isolate, but has also been proposed to be part of a Pakawan family.
From Wikipedia · Coahuilteco language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Coahuilteco
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | pilam* | |
| name | auxw* | |
| hand | mawx* | |
| blood | hac* | |
| breast | tam* | |
| water | wan | |
| fire | talom* | |
| tree | pumanpaxawCe* | |
| night | Cum* | |
| dog | kaCowa* | |
| one | pil* | |
| two | axte* | |
| I | Cen* | |
| you | xamin* | |
| we | Cakan* | |
| drink | kowxw* | |
| see | mas* | |
| hear | Cakey* | |
| die | xum* | |
| come | kal* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
Nearby languages
Elsewhere
Glottolog · coah1252 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · xcw