Coahuiltec
Coahuiltec | ||
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Spoken in |
USA , Mexico | |
Language codes | ||
ISO 639-3 |
xcw |
Coahuilteco , also Coahuilteco ( ISO 639-3 : xcw), is an indigenous American language that was common in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico . The Coahuiltec dialects are all extinct. Coahuiltec was the language of the Coahuiltec peoples.
In 1920, Edward Sapir postulated an assignment of Coahuiltek and the languages of the Tonkawa and Karankawa together with the Hoka languages to a Hoka-Coahuiltek group; according to Rudolph C. Troike, Coahuiltek is now an isolated language . The existence of ejective sounds, the sequence of parts of sentences subject-object-verb and a congruence between subject and object are passed down as characteristics of Coahuiltek .
The best information on the Coahuilteco speakers comes from Damián Mazanet and Bartholomé García , who documented the indigenous population of the region and their languages at the end of the 17th and mid-18th centuries. After the end of the 18th century there is no longer any evidence of the language. The name Coahuilteco was coined in the 19th century by the Mexican linguist Manuel Orozco y Berra .
literature
- Thomas N. Campbell: Coahuiltecans and Their Neighbors. In: William C. Sturtevant (Ed.): Handbook of North American Indians . Volume 10: Alfonso Ortiz (Ed.): Southwest. Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 1983, pp. 343-358.
- Harald Haarmann : Small Lexicon of Languages. From Albanian to Zulu (= Beck series , 1432). Beck, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-406-47558-2 .
- Margaret Langdon: Comparative Hokan-Coahuiltecan Studies. A Survey and Appraisal (= Ianua linguarum. Series critica. 4, ISSN 0075-3092 ). Mouton, The Hague, et al. a. 1974.
- Marianne Mithun: The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge u. a. 1999, ISBN 0-521-23228-7 .
- Rudolph C. Troike: Subject-Object Concord in Coahuilteco. In: Language , Vol. 57, No. 3, 1981, ISSN 0097-8507 , pp. 658-673, JSTOR 414344 .
- Rudolph C. Troike: Center-Embedding Relative Clauses in Coahuilteco. In: International Journal of American Linguistics , Volume 81, No. 1, 2015, ISSN 0020-7071 , pp. 133-142, JSTOR 679045 .
Web links
- On the language and its speakers ( Memento from February 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Jennifer L. Logan: Linguistics of Coahuiltec ( Memento of November 10, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) (English)