Aranama language
Extinct language
Aranama | |
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Tamique | |
Native to | Texas |
Ethnicity | Aranama, Tamique |
Extinct | late 19th century |
unclassified
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xrt
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xrt
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Glottolog |
aran1265
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Aranama ( Araname ), also known as Tamique , is an extinct unclassified language of Texas , USA. It was spoken by the Aranama and Tamique peoples at the Franciscan mission of Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga . It is only known from a two-word phrase from a non-native speaker: himiána tsáyi 'give me water!'. [1] Variations on the name are Taranames, Jaranames ~ Xaranames ~ Charinames, Chaimamé, Hanáma ~ Hanáme . [2]
Known words
In 1884, Albert Gatschet recorded one word and a two-word phrase from "Old Simon," a Tonkawa man who also served as an informant for the Karankawa language , of which a short vocabulary was recorded. According to Old Simon, the words were from a language that he referred to as "Hanáma" (or "Háname"): [3] : 193
- himiyána ‘water’
- Himiána tsýi! ‘Give me water!’
References
- ↑ Swanton, John Reed (1940). "Linguistic material from the tribes of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico" . Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin . 127 : 1–145. hdl : 10088/15429 .
- ↑ Craig H. Roell, "NUESTRA SENORA DEL ESPIRITU SANTO DE ZUNIGA MISSION," Handbook of Texas Online , accessed July 12, 2012. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
- ↑ Mithun, Marianne (2017). "Language Isolates". In Campbell, Lyle (ed.). Language Isolates of North America . Routledge Language Family Series. London: Routledge. pp. 193–228. doi : 10.4324/9781315750026 . ISBN 9781315750026 .
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