Coahuilteco language
Coahuilteco was one of the Pakawan languages that was spoken in southern Texas and northeastern Coahuila. It is now extinct.Classification
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. Manaster Ramen argues Powell's original more narrow Coahuiltecan grouping is sound, renaming it Pakawan in distinction from the later more expanded proposal.Sounds
Consonants
Vowels
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Coahuilteco has both short and long vowels.
