Cotoname was a
Pakawan language spoken by
Native Americans indigenous to the lower
Rio Grande Valley
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of northeastern
Mexico
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and extreme southern
Texas
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(
United States
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). Today it is
extinct.
Vocabulary
The following vocabulary list of Cotoname is from
John Swanton
John Reed Swanton (February 19, 1873 – May 2, 1958) was an American anthropologist, folklorist, and linguist who worked with Native American peoples throughout the United States. Swanton achieved recognition in the fields of ethnology and et ...
(1940).
[Swanton, John. 1940. ''Linguistic material from the tribes of southern Texas and northern Mexico.'']
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See also
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Indigenous languages of the Americas
Over a thousand indigenous languages are spoken by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. These languages cannot all be demonstrated to be related to each other and are classified into a hundred or so language families (including a large num ...
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Comecrudan languages
Comecrudan refers to a group of possibly related languages spoken in the southernmost part of Texas and in northern Mexico along the Rio Grande of which ''Comecrudo'' is the best known. Very little is known about these languages or the people who ...
References
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Native American languages (in German)
{{North American languages
Pakawan languages
Extinct languages of North America
Languages extinct in the 1900s
Indigenous languages of Texas
Coahuiltecan languages
Language isolates of North America