Karankawa
Karankawa was a language isolate once spoken in United States.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Karankawa ( kə-RANK-ə-wə) is the extinct, unclassified language of the Texas coast, where the Karankawa people migrated between the mainland and the barrier islands. It was not closely related to other known languages in the area, many of which are also poorly attested, and may have been a language isolate. A couple hundred words are preserved, collected in 1698, 1720, and 1828; in the 1880s, three lists were collected from non-Karankawa who knew some words.
Karankawa has sometimes been included with neighboring languages in a Coahuiltecan family, but that is now thought to be spurious.
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Words in Karankawa
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| person | SuyNea* | |
| eye | leka* | |
| ear | aig* | |
| nose | lo7o* | |
| tooth | eg* | |
| tongue | len* | |
| hand | ho7oyo* | |
| blood | teSandelman* | |
| bone | teSedaly* | |
| skin | dolaxay* | |
| knee | klas* | |
| breast | al* | |
| water | clé | |
| fire | kwaSa* | |
| sun | klon* | |
| star | kagwan* | |
| stone | kay* | |
| mountain | ewaxadan* | |
| tree | akwini* | |
| dog | kweSe* | |
| fish | am* | |
| one | natsa* | |
| two | haikia* | |
| I | nayi* | |
| you | awa* | |
| drink | kuwe* | |
| see | om* | |
| die | mal* | |
| come | gas* |
* 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 · kara1289 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · zkk