Quinigua language

Quinigua
Quinigua
Region	NE Mexico
Extinct	(date missing)
Language family	unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	quin1252
	The location of Quinigua relative to Tamaulipas state

Quinigua (Kiniwa) is an extinct language that was spoken in northeastern Mexico. Quinigua was spoken between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Sierra Tamaulipa la Nueva, and between the Rio Grande and the Rio del Pilón Grande.^[1] It has no apparent relatives and remains unclassified.

Classification

Gursky (1964) notes that Quinigua is highly different from its neighbors such as Coahuilteco, but observes some limited similarities with "Hokan-Coahuiltecan languages" such as Comecrudan and Yuman languages.^[1]

Vocabulary

A vocabulary list of Quinigua is documented in del Hoyo (1960).^[2] Gursky (1964) has selected and retranscribed some of del Hoyo's (1960) vocabulary, reproduced below.^[1]

gloss	Quinigua
bean	mina
broad	patama
deep	sarak
deer	mau
dog	karama
duck	amakia
earth	ama
eat	ama, anama; ka(ene)
fish	ama, ami; ka
foot (of deer)	boi
forehead	niapin
go	wame, wan (?)
great	ya; ki
head	kai
hill	agu, ayu; imi
javali, hog	amoka
many	kai, ki
rabbit	kun
rain	paak
red (or black)	pan, pa
reed	aki, xi
rock	pixa
tail (of deer)	apino
thick	ta
tobacco	axo
tree	ana
water	ka, kwa, wa

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Gursky, Karl-Heinz (October 1964). "The Linguistic Position of the Quinigua Indians". International Journal of American Linguistics. 30 (4). The University of Chicago Press: 325–327. doi:10.1086/464792. JSTOR 1263527. S2CID 143736051.
^ del Hoyo, Eugenio. 1960. Vocablos de la Lengua Quinigua de los Indios Borrados del Noreste de México. Anuario del Centro de Estudios Humanisticos, Universidad de Nuevo León 1. 489-515.