Solano
Olelato
RegionNortheast Mexico
Extinct18th century
Language codes
ISO 639-3xso
xso
Glottologsanf1266
Pre-contact distribution of Solano language

Solano is an unclassified extinct language formerly spoken in northeast Mexico and perhaps also in the neighboring U.S. state of Texas.

Background

Solano is known only from a 21-word vocabulary list that appears at the end of a 1703–1708 baptism book from the San Francisco Solano mission, which hosted at least four different peoples, including the Xarame, Payuguan, Papanac, and Siaguan.[1] Supposedly the language is of the Indians of this mission – perhaps the Terocodame band cluster. The Solano peoples are associated with the 18th-century missions near Eagle Pass, Texas.

Lexical comparison

Below is a comparison of selected words from Zamponi (2024).[1]

language father four meat mother three water
Solano papam saath nikaog naha genin hipayō
Lipan Apache[2] -ʔaaší dínínɁí -cinin -Ɂ-nándí káíɁí kó
Coahuilteco[3] -xana·y puwa·nc̉an aha·wh -ta·y axtikpil wan
Comecrudo[4] mawiʹs nawuiʹ eweʹ, kai maʹt, te ̉yiʹy aʹx̣
Tonkawa[5] ʔewas, ta·taʔ sikit ʔawas xʔay, ʔesaʔ metis ʔa·x
Proto-Uto-Aztecan[6] *na, *ta(ta), *ʔok *mako’ *tuhku, *waʔi *ye, *nan *pahi *pa

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References

  1. ^ a b Zamponi, Raoul (2024). "Unclassified languages". The Languages and Linguistics of Indigenous North America. De Gruyter. pp. 1627–1648. doi:10.1515/9783110712742-061. ISBN 978-3-11-071274-2.
  2. ^ Hoijer, Harry. 1956. "The chronology of the Athapaskan languages". International Journal of American Linguistics 22. 219–232.
  3. ^ Troike, Rudolph C. 1996. "Sketch of Coahuilteco, a language isolate of Texas". In Ives Goddard (ed.), Handbook of North American Indians. Vol. 17: Languages, 644–665. Washington: Smithsonian Institution.
  4. ^ Swanton, John R. 1940. Linguistic material from the tribes of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico. (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 127). Washington: Government Printing Office.
  5. ^ Hoijer, Harry; Thomas R. Wier (editor). 2018. Tonkawa texts: a new linguistic edition. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
  6. ^ Miller, Wick R. 1967. Uto-Aztecan cognate sets. (University of California Publications in Linguistics 48). Berkeley/Los Angeles: University of California.
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