Comanche
Nʉmʉ Tekwapʉ̲
Comanche is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken in United States, by about 915 people. Glottolog rates it moribund.
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Comanche (English: , endonym Nʉmʉ Tekwapʉ̲) is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche, who split from the Shoshone soon after the Comanche had acquired horses around 1705. The Comanche language and the Shoshoni language are quite similar, but certain consonant changes in Comanche have inhibited mutual intelligibility.
The name Comanche comes from the Ute word kɨmantsi "enemy, stranger". Their own name for the language is nʉmʉ tekwapʉ, which means "language of the people".
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Words in Comanche
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| mother | pia | |
| father | apʉ | |
| water | paa | |
| fire | kuuna | |
| moon | mʉa | |
| star | tatsinuupi | |
| sky | tomoobi | |
| rain | ʉmarʉ | |
| river | pia hunuubi | |
| dog | sarii | |
| fish | pekwi | |
| horse | puuku | |
| one | sʉmʉ | |
| yes | haa | |
| house | kahni |
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- ShoshoniUto-Aztecan42% alike
- Mono (USA)Uto-Aztecan40% alike
- PanamintUto-Aztecan40% alike
- Northern PaiuteUto-Aztecan37% alike
- KawaiisuUto-Aztecan25% alike
- Ute-Southern PaiuteUto-Aztecan20% alike
Grammar
- Northern PaiuteUto-Aztecan83% alike
- ShoshoniUto-Aztecan82% alike
- Mono (USA)Uto-Aztecan82% alike
- BolinaoAustronesian81% alike
- Suruí Do ParáTupian79% alike
- Northern PumiSino-Tibetan79% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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