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Cotoname is an Indigenous language of Mexico and the American state of Texas formerly spoken by Native Americans indigenous to the lower Rio Grande Valley of northeastern
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, and is proposed to be a component of a Pakawan language family. Today, it is considered a language isolate. All known primary witnesses to the Cotoname language were published in 2024.


Vocabulary

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


See also

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Indigenous languages of the Americas The Indigenous languages of the Americas are the languages that were used by the Indigenous peoples of the Americas before the arrival of non-Indigenous peoples. Over a thousand of these languages are still used today, while many more are now e ...
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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. These were spoken by the Comecrudo people. Very little is ...


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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