Extinct North American aboriginal 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.
Vocabulary
The following vocabulary list of Maratino is from John Swanton (1940: 122–124).[1]
| gloss |
Maratino
|
| able |
kugtima
|
| after the manner of |
niwa
|
| although |
kuaahne
|
| and |
he
|
| arrow |
ciri
|
| bird |
magtc
|
| bow |
mahkā
|
| but yet |
kuaahne
|
| children |
tzikuini
|
| come home, to |
utepa
|
| cord |
pong
|
| cry, to |
mimigihi
|
| deer |
kons(gio)
|
| (diminutive suffix) |
-i
|
| drink, to |
baah(ka)
|
| eat, to |
migtikui
|
| enemy |
koapagtzi
|
| escape, to |
kugtima
|
| far |
kuiüsikuima
|
| flee, to |
pamini
|
| forces |
koh
|
| forest (?) |
tamu
|
| go, to |
nohgima
|
| joy |
maamehe
|
| kill, to |
paahtcu
|
| leap, to |
maatzimetzu
|
| like |
niwa
|
| lion |
xuri
|
| little |
-i
|
| many |
a-a
|
| meat |
migtikui
|
| mountain |
tamu
|
| not |
-he
|
| now |
mohka
|
| our |
ming
|
| peyote |
peyot
|
| (plural suffix) |
-a
|
| run, to |
kuino, kugtima
|
| see, to |
tepeh
|
| shots |
katama
|
| shout, to |
nohgima
|
| shout for joy, to |
maamehe
|
| sleep, to |
tutcē
|
| strength |
koh
|
| the |
tze
|
| them |
me
|
| these |
tze
|
| to |
tamu
|
| unable |
kugtimā
|
| us |
ko, ming
|
| very |
kuiüsikuima
|
| war, to |
tamu
|
| we |
ming
|
| weep, to |
mimigihi
|
| without |
-he
|
| wolf |
bum
|
| woman |
tciwat
|
| woods |
tamu
|
| yet |
kuaahne
|
