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Maratino language

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Region
  
NE Mexico

Language family
  
unclassified

Glottolog
  
mara1266

Extinct
  
(date missing)

ISO 639-3
  
None (mis)

Maratino language

Maratino is a barely attested extinct language that was spoken in north-east Mexico, near Martín, Tamaulipas. Swanton, who called it 'Tamaulipeco', classified it as Uto-Aztecan based on a few obvious cognates, such as Maratino chiguat 'woman' ~ Nahuatl cihuātl 'woman' and peyot 'peyote' ~ Nahuatl peyotl, but other scholars have not considered this to be enough to classify the language.

References

Maratino language Wikipedia