Maratino language

Maratino
Tamaulipeco
Region NE Mexico
Extinct (date missing)
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3 None (mis)
Glottolog mara1266[1]

The location of Maratino in Tamaulipas state

Maratino is a barely attested extinct language that was spoken in north-east Mexico, near Martín, Tamaulipas. Swanton, who called it 'Tamaulipeco', classified it as Uto-Aztecan based on a few obvious cognates, such as Maratino chiguat 'woman' ~ Nahuatl cihuātl 'woman' and peyot 'peyote' ~ Nahuatl peyotl, but other scholars have not considered this to be enough to classify the language.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Maratino". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

The little material that is recorded is published in

  • John Swanton, 1940, Linguistic material from the tribes of southern Texas and northern Mexico. (122–124)


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