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Name: Coahuilteco Type: Language Alternate Names: Coahuiltecan; Pajalate; Coahuiltec; Coahuilteco proper Code: xcw Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: LINGUIST List Families: Isolates & Small Families Parent Subgroup: Coahuilteco; Coahuiltecan; Coahuiltecan Family (coah) Child Dialects: Pajalate (xcw-paj) Rio Grande Coahuilteco (xcw-rio) San Antonio Coahuilteco (xcw-san) Brief Description: "Coahuilteco was spoken in the eighteenth century at the Franciscan mission in San Antonio, Texas. It is primarily documented in an 88-page bilingual Spanish-Coahuilteco confessor's manual published in Mexico in 1760, which apparently represents one dialect (Pajalate) of a language spoken widely in southern Texas and Coahuila. Although in the past Coahuilteco was often joined to several other extinct languages of Texas and Mexico in a postulated family called 'Coahuiltecan,' it is now considered an isolate. There is no attestation of the language after the end of the eighteenth century." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 13

Endangerment Status

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Linguist List Status: Extinct