Mamulique language explained

Mamulique
Nativename:	Carrizo
Region:	Nuevo León
Extinct:	19th century
Familycolor:	American
Fam1:	Hokan ?
Fam2:	Coahuiltecan ?
Fam3:	Pakawan
Fam4:	Comecrudan
Iso3:	emm
Linglist:	emm
Glotto:	mamu1257
States:	Northeast Mexico

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.

Sample text

Goddard (1979: 384), citing Berlandier, provides the following phrase for Mamulique, with aha meaning 'water'.^[1]

aha mojo cuejemad (original transcription)

pronounced as /emm/ (IPA approximation)

Donne moi de l'eau. (French glossing)

Give me water. (English glossing)

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.

Notes and References

1. 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.