Mamulique_language

Mamulique language

Mamulique language

Extinct Pakawan language of Nuevo León, Mexico

Mamulique is an extinct Pakawan language of Nuevo León, Mexico.

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Called Carrizo (Carrizo de Mamulique) by Jean-Louis Berlandier, it was recorded in a twenty-two-word vocabulary (in two versions) from near Mamulique, Nuevo León in 1828 (Berlandier et al. 1828–1829, 1850: 68–71). These speakers were a group of about forty-five families who were all Spanish-speaking Christians.

Example phrase

Goddard (1979: 384), citing Berlandier, provides the following phrase for Mamulique, with aha meaning 'water'.[1]

aha mojo cuejemad (original transcription)
aha moxo kwexemat (IPA approximation)
Donne moi de l'eau. (French glossing)
Give me water. (English glossing)

References

  1. [1]
    Goddard, Ives. (1979). The languages of south Texas and the lower Rio Grande. In L. Campbell & M. Mithun (Eds.) The languages of native America (pp. 355–389). Austin: University of Texas Press.

Sources

  • 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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