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Quinigua language

Quinigua language

Extinct North American aboriginal language

Quinigua (Kiniwa) is an extinct language that was spoken in northeastern Mexico. Quinigua was spoken between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Sierra Tamaulipa la Nueva, and between the Rio Grande and the Rio del Pilón Grande.[1] It has no apparent relatives and remains unclassified.

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Classification

Gursky (1964) notes that Quinigua is highly different from its neighbors such as Coahuilteco, but observes some limited similarities with "Hokan-Coahuiltecan languages" such as Comecrudan and Yuman languages.[1]

Vocabulary

A vocabulary list of Quinigua is documented in del Hoyo (1960).[2] Gursky (1964) has selected and retranscribed some of del Hoyo's (1960) vocabulary, reproduced below.[1]

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References

  1. [1]
    Gursky, Karl-Heinz (October 1964). "The Linguistic Position of the Quinigua Indians". International Journal of American Linguistics. 30 (4). The University of Chicago Press: 325–327. doi:10.1086/464792. JSTOR 1263527. S2CID 143736051.
  2. [2]
    del Hoyo, Eugenio. 1960. Vocablos de la Lengua Quinigua de los Indios Borrados del Noreste de México. Anuario del Centro de Estudios Humanisticos, Universidad de Nuevo León 1. 489-515.
Wiktionary has a word list at Appendix:Quinigua word list
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