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Cuitlatec, orCuitlateco, is an extinct language ofMexico, formerly spoken by anindigenous people known asCuitlatec.

Cuitlatec has not been convincingly classified as belonging to anylanguage family. It is believed to be a language isolate. In their controversial classification of theindigenous languages of the Americas, Greenberg and Ruhlen include Cuitlatec in an expandedChibchan language family (Macro-Chibchan), along with a variety of other Mesoamerican and South American languages.^[1] Escalante Hernández suggests a possible relation to theUto-Aztecan languages.^[2]

Cuitlatec was spoken in thestate ofGuerrero. By the 1930s, Cuitlatec was spoken only inSan Miguel Totolapan. The last speaker of the language, Juana Can, is believed to have died in the 1960s.^[2] In 1979, only two elderly women, Florentina Celso and Apolonia Robles, were able to remember about fifty words of the language.^[3]

• The sounds/f/,/s/,/r/, and/ɾ/ are found inloan words fromSpanish.

Sentences generally followSVO word order.Adjectives precede the nouns they modify.

• Susana Drucker, Roberto Escalante, & Roberto J. Weitlaner. 1969. The Cuitlatec. In Evon Z. Vogt, ed.,Handbook of Middle American Indians, Ethnology: Vol 7, Chapter 30.University of Texas Press, Austin: 565–575
• McQuown, Norman A. 1945. Fonémica del Cuitlateco.El México Antiguo 5: 239–254.
• Weitlaner, Roberto J. 1939. Notes on the Cuitlatec language.El México Antiguo 4: 363–373.

Look upAppendix:Cuitlatec word list in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Cuitlatec word list on Wiktionary

• Mesoamerican languages
• Extinct languages of North America
• Indigenous languages of Mexico
• Subject–object–verb languages
• Languages extinct in the 1960s
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