Comecrudo language

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The Comecrudo language is an extinct indigenous language once spoken in what is now southern Texas and northeastern Mexico, associated with the Comecrudo (Carrizo) people and classified among the poorly documented Coahuiltecan languages.

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Comecrudo language canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Coahuiltecan language
Native American language
extinct language
indigenous language
alternativeName Carrizo language
associatedWithRiver Rio Grande
belongsToMacroArea Northern Mexico and Southern Texas
classificationCertainty uncertain
continent North America
country Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalArea Rio Grande valley
surface form: Lower Rio Grande Valley

South Texas Plains
dataCollectedBy Albert Samuel Gatschet
surface form: Albert Gatschet
dataCollectionCentury 19th century
documentationStatus poorly documented
endonymStatus poorly attested
ethnicGroup Carrizo people
Comecrudo people
extinctionStatus no native speakers remaining
glottologName Comecrudo
hasAlternativeClassification language isolate (proposed)
hasGlottocode come1236
hasLexicalSimilarityWith Cotoname language
surface form: Cotoname language (proposed)

Garza language
surface form: Garza language (proposed)
hasLinguisticDataType short phrases
wordlist
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology (proposed)
rich verbal morphology (proposed)
hasNeighboringLanguage Coahuiltecan languages
surface form: Coahuilteco language

Cotoname language
Garza language
Pajalate language
historicalEra Spanish colonial period
pre-colonial period
ISO639-3Code xcm
isPartOf indigenous languages of Mexico
indigenous languages of Texas
isSubjectOf comparative Coahuiltecan studies
languageFamily Coahuiltecan
linguisticTypology subject–object–verb language
region northeastern Mexico
southern Texas
spokenBy small population
status extinct
timeOfExtinction by early 20th century (approximate)
UNESCOStatus extinct
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Coahuiltecan languages hasMember Comecrudo language