Coahuiltecan languages
| Coahuiltecan | |
|---|---|
| (obsolete) | |
| Geographic distribution | Texas, northern Mexico |
| Extinct | by 1900s |
| Linguistic classification | related to Hokan? |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
| Glottolog | None |
The range of Indians of Coahuiltecan culture in Texas, although most authorities would not include the Karankawa and Tonkawa as Coahuiltecan. | |
Coahuiltecan was a proposed language family in John Wesley Powell's 1891 classification of Native American languages. Most linguists now reject the view that the Coahuiltecan peoples of southern Texas and adjacent Mexico spoke a single or related languages. Coahuiltecan continues to be a convenient collective term for the languages and people of this region.