Cotoname is an Indigenous language of Mexico and the American state of Texas formerly spoken by Native Americans indigenous to the lower Rio Grande Valley of northeastern Mexico and extreme southern Texas (United States). Today it is extinct, and is proposed to be a component of a Pakawan language family. Today, it is considered a language isolate.
All known primary witnesses to the Cotoname language were published in 2024.Haukur Þorgeirsson and Alaric Hall, 'The Cotoname Language – The Primary Sources', Zenodo (2024), .
Vocabulary The following vocabulary list of Cotoname is from John Swanton (1940).Swanton, John. 1940. Linguistic material from the tribes of southern Texas and northern Mexico.
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible sortable" ! gloss !! Cotoname |- | air || |- | arm, right || |- | arrow || |- | bad || , |- | bed || |- | belly || , |- | below || |- | bird || |- | bison || |- | black || (cf. night) |- | blade || |- | blanket, American || (cf. cold) |- | blood || |- | blow, to || |- | bow || |- | boy || |- | breast (female) || |- | breechclout || |- | buffalo || |- | cactus-fig || |- | cane || |- | chair, a || |- | chief || |- | cloth (a small piece of cloth) || |- | cold || |- | come here! || |- | Comecrudo || , |- | cow || |- | crane || |- | cry, to || |- | dance, to || |- | day || |- | daybreak || |- | deer || |- | die, to || |- | dog || |- | drink, to || |- | dust || |- | earth || |- | east || |- | eat, to || |- | evening || |- | eye || |- | face || |- | far || |- | feathers || |- | female || |- | fire || |- | flesh || |- | fog || |- | food || |- | foot || |- | fox || |- | girl || |- | go over there! || |- | goat || |- | good || |- | goose || |- | grass || |- | great || |- | gun || |- | guts || |- | hair || |- | handkerchief || |- | hare || |- | hat || |- | head || |- | high || |- | hog || |- | horn || |- | horse || |- | Indian, an || |- | infant || |- | iron || |- | Karankawa || |- | kill, to || |- | knife || |- | knife (for cutting leather) || |- | land || |- | let us go! || |- | little || |- | low (said of water) || |- | maize || |- | maize-husk || |- | male quadruped || |- | man || |- | masticate, to || |- | meat || |- | mesquite-bush || |- | metate || |- | milk || |- | mouse || |- | mud || |- | night || |- | no || |- | north || |- | nose || |- | ox (young) || |- | painted (on body, face, etc.) || |- | peccary || |- | Pintos (Indian tribe so called) || |- | pipe || |- | rabbit || |- | rat || |- | red || |- | reed || |- | rifle || |- | Rio Grande river || , |- | river || , |- | run, to || |- | salt || |- | scratch, to || |- | seat, a || |- | sheep || |- | sing, to || |- | sit, to || |- | sit down! || |- | sleep, to || |- | small || |- | smoke, to || , |- | snake || |- | sombrero || |- | south || |- | stand, to || |- | star || |- | stick || |- | suck, to || |- | sun || |- | sweet || |- | sweetmeats || |- | tail (of animal) || |- | Tampacuás Indian || |- | tobacco || |- | tortilla || |- | tortoise || |- | tree || |- | tuna || |- | up the country || |- | velduque || |- | west || |- | what do you want? || |- | water || |- | weep, to || |- | west || |- | white || |- | wind || |- | wings || |- | within || |- | wolf || |- | woman ||
See also Indigenous languages of the Americas Comecrudan languages
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Native American languages (in German) North and Central-American language families