Quinigua

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Quinigua (also Guinigua or Quinicuane ) was an indigenous language that was previously spoken in the state of Nuevo León in northeast Mexico . It died out today. Its genetic classification is unclear.

The Quinigua was the language of the Borrado who lived in the area between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Sierre Tamaulipa la Nueva , between the Rio Grande and the Río del Pilón Grande .

The Quinigua is documented mainly in the form of individual words contained in documents of the Monterrey City Archives from the period between the end of the 16th and the end of the 18th century. Due to the lack of data, a definitive statement about the genetic relationship of Quinigua to other languages ​​is not possible. The older hypothesis that Quinigua belongs to the Coahuiltek language family is not supported by the documented words, but a more distant relationship with Coahuiltek can neither be excluded nor proven.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Karl-Heinz Gursky: The Linguistic Position of the Quinigua Indians. In: International Journal of American Linguistics , Vol. 30, No. 4, 1964, pp. 325-327.
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literature

  • Karl-Heinz Gursky: The Linguistic Position of the Quinigua Indians. In: International Journal of American Linguistics , Vol. 30, No. 4, 1964, pp. 325-327.