Tubar language

Tubar or Tubare, is an extinct language of southern Chihuahua, Mexico that belonged to the Uto-Aztecan language family.

Morphology

Tubar is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together.

Sample text

The following two samples are the Lord's Prayer in Tubar.

Ite cañar tegmue carichui catemat;
Imit tegmuarac milituraba teochigualac;
Imit huegmica cariniti bacachin-assisaguin
Imit avamunarir echu nañigualac imo cuigan
amo nachic tegmuecarichin.
Ite cokuatarit essemer taniguarit iabla ite micam;
Ite tatacoli ikiri atzomua ikirirain ite bacachin
cale kuegmua nañiguá cantem;
Caioa ite nosam baca tatacoli; bacachin
ackiró muetzerac ite.
The other version of the Lord's Prayer is slightly different from the first; it may be transcribed differently or be a different dialect.

Hite cañac temo calichin catema;
himite muhará huiturabá santoñetará;
himitemo acarí hay sesahui hitebacachin
hitaramaré hechinemolac amo cuira pan
amotemo calichin.
hitecocohatari éseme tan huaric llava hitemichin;
tatacoli higuíli hite nachi higuiriray hite bacachin
calquihuan nehun conten;
hitehohui catehue cheraca tatacoli; bacachin
hiquipo calquihuá ñahuité baquit ebacahin calaserac.

References

Sources

  • "Tubar Language and the Tubar Indian Tribe (Tubare, Tubares)". www.native-languages.org. Retrieved 2023-01-12.


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