Tubar or Tubare, is an extinct language of southern
Chihuahua,
Mexico
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that belonged to the
Uto-Aztecan language family.
Morphology
Tubar is an
agglutinative
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language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several
morpheme
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s strung together.
[Stubbs, B. D. (2000). The Comparative Value of Tubar in Uto-Aztecan. Uto-Aztecan: Structural, Temporal, and Geographic Perspectives: Papers in Memory of Wick R. Miller by the Friends of Uto-Aztecan, 357.]
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Agglutinative languages
Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
Extinct languages of North America
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