Social:Amotomanco language
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Short description: Extinct and unclassified language
| Amotomanco | |
|---|---|
| Otomoaco | |
| Native to | United States, Mexico |
| Region | La Junta de los Rios |
| Ethnicity | La Junta Indians (Tomoacas people) |
| Extinct | colonial period |
unclassified (Uto-Aztecan?) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | amot1239[1] |
Amotomanco is an extinct and poorly attested language of southern Texas and northern Mexico. Only 4 words are known.[2]
Vocabulary
Four words are known of Amotomanco, being abad 'water', teoy 'corn', ayaguate 'beans', and porba or payla 'copper'.[3] A two-word expression, of which the meaning is unknown, was said to be sung in a dance, ayia canima.
See also
- List of extinct Uto-Aztecan languages
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Amotomanco". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/amot1239.
- ↑ Dagostino, Carmen, ed (2023-12-04). The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America: A Comprehensive Guide, Vol. 2. De Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110712742. ISBN 978-3-11-071274-2. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110712742/html.
- ↑ Campbell, Lyle (2024-06-25), "Unclassified and Spurious Languages" (in en), The Indigenous Languages of the Americas (Oxford University PressNew York): pp. 280–338, doi:10.1093/oso/9780197673461.003.0005, ISBN 978-0-19-767346-1, https://academic.oup.com/book/57386/chapter/464721551, retrieved 2025-06-02
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