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Coahuiltecan was a proposed language family in John Wesley Powell's 1891 classification of Native American languages. [1] Most linguists now reject the view that the Coahuiltecan peoples of southern Texas and adjacent Mexico spoke a single or related languages. [ 2 ]
This map shows (in orange) the proximity of Coahuiltecan peoples in Texas, although most authorities would not include the Karankawa and Tonkawa as Coahuiltecan. The Coahuiltecan languages are a collection of related languages. [4] It should not be confused with the Coahuilteco language. The Coahuiltecan languages are extinct, but there are ...
Five clear Pakawan languages are attested: Coahuilteco, Cotoname, Comecrudo, Garza and Mamulique. The first three were first proposed to be related by John Wesley Powell in 1891, in a grouping then called Coahuiltecan. Goddard (1979) groups the latter three in a Comecrudan family while considering the others language isolates. The current ...
Coahuilteco was grouped in an eponymous Coahuiltecan family by John Wesley Powell in 1891, later expanded by additional proposed members by e.g. Edward Sapir. Ives Goddard later treated all these connections with suspicion, leaving Coahuilteco as a language isolate.
The name Comecrudo means "raw meat eaters" in Spanish. Spanish colonists also called them the Carrizo, [1] meaning "reed." [2] In 1886, they told Gaschet they preferred the name Comecrudo over Carrizo. [2]
In John Wesley Powell's 1891 classification of North American languages, Comecrudo was grouped together with the Cotoname and Coahuilteco languages into a family called Coahuiltecan. John R. Swanton (1915) grouped together the Comecrudo, Cotoname, Coahuilteco, Karankawa , Tonkawa , Atakapa , and Maratino languages into a Coahuiltecan grouping.
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At the time of European and African contact, the Pajalat lived between the Frio River and the San Antonio River. [1] The Tiplacopal people shared their territory. [2] A 1727 Spanish map shows the Pajalat and Siquipil lived in what is now Goliad County, Texas.