Maratino language

Maratino is a poorly 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.

Maratino
Tamaulipeco
Regionnear Martín, Tamaulipas, NE Mexico
Extinct(date missing)
unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmara1266[1]
The location of Maratino in Tamaulipas state

Vocabulary

The following vocabulary list of Maratino is from John Swanton (1940: 122–124).[2]

glossMaratino
ablekugtima
after the manner ofniwa
althoughkuaahne
andhe
arrowciri
birdmagtc
bowmahkā
but yetkuaahne
childrentzikuini
come home, toutepa
cordpong
cry, tomimigihi
deerkons(gio)
(diminutive suffix)-i
drink, tobaah(ka)
eat, tomigtikui
enemykoapagtzi
escape, tokugtima
farkuiüsikuima
flee, topamini
forceskoh
forest (?)tamu
go, tonohgima
joymaamehe
kill, topaahtcu
leap, tomaatzimetzu
likeniwa
lionxuri
little-i
manya-a
meatmigtikui
mountaintamu
not-he
nowmohka
ourming
peyotepeyot
(plural suffix)-a
run, tokuino, kugtima
see, totepeh
shotskatama
shout, tonohgima
shout for joy, tomaamehe
sleep, totutcē
strengthkoh
thetze
themme
thesetze
totamu
unablekugtimā
usko, ming
verykuiüsikuima
war, totamu
weming
weep, tomimigihi
without-he
wolfbum
womantciwat
woodstamu
yetkuaahne

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Maratino". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Swanton, John. 1940. Linguistic material from the tribes of southern Texas and northern Mexico. (122–124)

The little material that is recorded is published in:

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