Coca language
| Coca | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Mexico |
| Region | Jalisco |
| Ethnicity | Coca people |
| Extinct | (date missing) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | None (mis) |
| Glottolog | coca1262 |
The Coca language is a poorly attested Uto-Aztecan language, ostensibly of the Taracahitic subgroup, formerly spoken in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Vocabulary
In the 1930s and 1940s, the historian José Ignacio Dávila Garibi compiled a number of lexical items in the Coca language from historical documents. Other Uto-Aztecan languages are included here for comparison.
| gloss | Coca | Cahita | Yaqui | Cora | Western Peripheral Nahuatl |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| father, chief | tatachi | nachai | achai | nitáata | tahtli |
| mother, patroness, lady | nanachi | nae | ae, maala | naána | nāntzin |
| food | tachacate | buhuame | bwa'ame | cua'ira | tacualli/ihtacate |
| sugarcane | samná | sama | yoisana | huiini | oat |
| deer (sg/pl) | neari/nearin | maso | maaso | muasá/muasate | mazāt/mazāme |
| water | a/ac | bá | ba'am | jaj | āt/āl |
| river, stream | aque | háqui | jakia | achi/játa'ana | ātōyātl/ātōyātontli |
| to wash | tapaca | hipacsia | baksia, jipaksia | rajá'usiin | tapāca |
| to rest | següe | iumiore | kopana, yumjoe | rusa'upe | zēhuiā |
Two Coca toponyms are recorded in the Relación Geográfica: Tapichinticahui (Juchitlán) and Tasnahui (Ocotlán).
References
- 1 2 3 4 Torres Nila, Álvaro J.; Rosales, Rosa H. Yáñez (2018). "¿Náhuatl y coca en contacto? Documentos coloniales del sur del obispado de Guadalajara". In Santos García, Saul (ed.). Lenguas en contacto en el México colonial y contemporáneo: español y lenguas mexicanas. Tepic, Nayarit: Universidad Autónoma de Nayarit. pp. 5–21. ISBN 978-607-8482-10-8.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2026). "Coca". Glottolog 5.3. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Dávila Garibi, J. Ignacio (1942). "Algunas afinidades entre las lenguas coca y cahita". El México Antiguo. 6: 47–60.
- ↑ Dávila Garibi, J. Ignacio (1935). "Recopliación de datos acerca del idioma coca". Investigaciones Lingüísticas. III: 248–302.
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