Maratino is a poorly attested

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that was spoken in north-east

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, near Martín,

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. Swanton, who called it 'Tamaulipeco', classified it as

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based on a few obvious cognates, such as Maratino ''chiguat'' 'woman' ~

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''cihuātl'' 'woman' and ''peyot'' '

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' ~ Nahuatl ''peyotl'', but other scholars have not considered this to be enough to classify the language.

Vocabulary

The following vocabulary list of Maratino is from John Swanton (1940: 122–124).Swanton, John. 1940. ''Linguistic material from the tribes of southern Texas and northern Mexico.'' (122–124) :

Vocabulary

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