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Pre-contact distribution of Comecrudan languages. (Distribution continues to the south.)
Comecrudan refers to a group of possibly related languages spoken in the southernmost part ofTexas and in northernMexico along theRio Grande of whichComecrudo is the best known. These were spoken by theComecrudo people. Very little is known about these languages or the people who spoke them. Knowledge of them primarily consists of word lists collected byEuropeanmissionaries and explorers. All Comecrudan languages areextinct.
Edward Sapir (1920) accepted Swanton's proposal and grouped this hypothetical Coahuiltecan into hisHokan stock.
After these proposals, documentation of the Garza and Mamulique languages was brought to light, and Goddard (1979) believes that there is sufficient similarity between them and Comecrudan for them to be considered genetically related. He rejects all other relationships.
Powell's original Coahuiltecan, renamed Pakawan and extended with Garza and Mamulique, has been defended by Manaster Ramer (1996), who also sees a relationship with Karankawa probable and Atakapa as a more distant possibility.[1] This proposal has been challenged by Campbell,[2] who considers its sound correspondences unsupported and considers that some of the observed similarities between words may be due to borrowing.
The following table of commoncore vocabulary constitutes the complete evidence given by Goddard (1979: 380) in support of a Comecrudan family.Berlandier's manuscripts contain the only existing records ofMamulique andGarza.[3][4]
^Berlandier, Jean L.; & Chowell, Rafael (1828–1829). [Vocabularies of languages of south Texas and the lower Rio Grande]. (Additional manuscripts, no. 38720, in the British Library, London.)
^Berlandier, Jean L.; & Chowell, Rafael (1850). Luis Berlandier and Rafael Chovell.Diario de viage de la Commission de Limites. Mexico.
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Goddard, Ives. (1999).Native languages and language families of North America (rev. and enlarged ed. with additions and corrections). [Map]. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press (Smithsonian Institution). (Updated version of the map in Goddard 1996).ISBN0-8032-9271-6.
Mithun, Marianne. (1999).The languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN0-521-23228-7 (hbk);ISBN0-521-29875-X.
Saldivar, Gabriel. (1943).Los Indios de Tamaulipas. Mexico City: Pan American Institute of Geography and History.
Sapir, Edward. (1920). The Hokan and Coahuiltecan languages.International Journal of American Linguistics,1 (4), 280–290.
Sturtevant, William C. (Ed.). (1978–present).Handbook of North American Indians (Vol. 1–20). Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution. (Vols. 1–3, 16, 18–20 not yet published).
Swanton, John R. (1915). Linguistic position of the tribes of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico.American Anthropologist,17, 17–40.
