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'Coahuilteco' (also 'Pajalate') was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Coahuilteco is now extinct.

Contents

Sounds

Consonants

Vowels

See also

External links

Bibliography

Sounds

Consonants

		Bilabial	Interdental	Alveolar	Post-alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
							plain	labial
'Stop'	plain
	ejective
'Affricate'	plain
	ejective
'Nasal'
'Fricative'
'Approximant'
'Approximant, lateral'	plain
	glottalized

Vowels

	Front	Center	Back
'High'
'Mid'
'Low'

Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.

See also

★ Coahuiltecan

External links

★ Coahuiltecan Indians

★ Reassessing Cultural Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capistrano, Texas — Chapter 8: Linguistics

Bibliography

★ Goddard, Ives (Ed.). (1996). ''Languages''. Handbook of North American Indians (W. C. Sturtevant, General Ed.) (Vol. 17). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. ISBN 0-16-048774-9.

★ Mithun, Marianne. (1999). ''The languages of Native North America''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.

★ Sturtevant, William C. (Ed.). (1978-present). ''Handbook of North American Indians'' (Vol. 1-20). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. (Vols. 1-3, 16, 18-20 not yet published).

★ Troike, Rudolph. (1996). Coahuilteco (Pajalate). In I. Goddard (Ed.), ''Languages'' (pp. 644-665). Handbook of North American Indians. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution.