Tubar or Tubare, is an extinct language of southern
Chihuahua,
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
that belonged to the
Uto-Aztecan
The Uto-Aztecan languages are a family of native American languages, consisting of over thirty languages. Uto-Aztecan languages are found almost entirely in the Western United States and Mexico. The name of the language family reflects the common ...
language family.
Morphology
Tubar is an
agglutinative
In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes (word parts), each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature. Languages that use agglutination widely are called agglu ...
language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several
morpheme
A morpheme is any of the smallest meaningful constituents within a linguistic expression and particularly within a word. Many words are themselves standalone morphemes, while other words contain multiple morphemes; in linguistic terminology, this ...
s strung together.
Sample text
The following two samples are the
Lord's Prayer
The Lord's Prayer, also known by its incipit Our Father (, ), is a central Christian prayer attributed to Jesus. It contains petitions to God focused on God’s holiness, will, and kingdom, as well as human needs, with variations across manusc ...
in Tubar.
[http://cdigital.dgb.uanl.mx/la/1020000334/1020000334_004.pdf]
The other version of the Lord's Prayer is slightly different from the first; it may be transcribed differently or be a different dialect.
References
Sources
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Agglutinative languages
Southern Uto-Aztecan languages
Extinct languages of North America
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