Mamulique language

Extinct Pakawan language of Nuevo León, Mexico

Mamulique
Carrizo
Region	Northeast Mexico
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Hokan ? Coahuiltecan ? Pakawan Comecrudan Mamulique
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`emm`
Linguist List	`emm`
Glottolog	`mamu1257`

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

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

^ 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.

Hokan languages

Shastan