Tubar language explained

Tubar
States:Mexico
Extinct:1940s–1970s
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Uto-Aztecan
Fam1:Uto-Aztecan
Fam2:Southern Uto-Aztecan
Fam3:Taracahitic?
Iso3:tbu
Glotto:tuba1279
Glottorefname:Tubar
Region:southern Chihuahua
Also Known As:Tubare

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.[1] [2]

Sample text

The following two samples are the Lord's Prayer in Tubar.[3]

italic=no|Ite cañar tegmue carichui catemat;<br /> Imit tegmuarac milituraba teochigualac;<br /> Imit huegmica cariniti bacachin-assisaguin<br /> Imit avamunarir echu nañigualac imo cuigan<br /> amo nachic tegmuecarichin.<br /> Ite cokuatarit essemer taniguarit iabla ite micam;<br /> Ite tatacoli ikiri atzomua ikirirain ite bacachin<br /> cale kuegmua nañiguá cantem;<br /> Caioa ite nosam baca tatacoli; bacachin<br /> ackiró muetzerac ite.<br />The other versoin of the Lord's Prayer is slightly different from the first; it may be transcribed differently or be a different dialect.

italic=no|Hite cañac temo calichin catema;<br /> himite muhará huiturabá santoñetará;<br /> himitemo acarí hay sesahui hitebacachin<br /> hitaramaré hechinemolac amo cuira pan<br /> amotemo calichin.<br /> hitecocohatari éseme tan huaric llava hitemichin;<br /> tatacoli higuíli hite nachi higuiriray hite bacachin<br /> calquihuan nehun conten;<br /> hitehohui catehue cheraca tatacoli; bacachin<br /> hiquipo calquihuá ñahuité baquit ebacahin calaserac.<br />

Sources

Notes and References

  1. Lionnet, A. (1978). El idioma tubar y los tubares: según documentos inéditos de CS Lumholtz y CV Hartman. Univ. Iberoamericana.
  2. Stubbs, B. D. (2000). The Comparative Value of Tubar in Uto-Aztecan. Uto-Aztecan: Structural, Temporal, and Geographic Perspectives: Papers in Memory of Wick R. Miller by the Friends of Uto-Aztecan, 357.
  3. http://cdigital.dgb.uanl.mx/la/1020000334/1020000334_004.pdf