| Coahuiltecan | |
|---|---|
| (obsolete) | |
| Geographic distribution | Texas, northern Mexico |
| Extinct | by 1900s |
| Linguistic classification | related to Hokan? |
| Subdivisions | |
| Language codes | |
 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.[1] Most linguists now reject the view that the Coahuiltecan peoples of southern Texas and adjacent Mexico spoke a single or related languages.[2] Coahuiltecan continues to be a convenient collective term for the languages and people of this region.
- ^ Powell, J. W. "Indian Linguistic Families of America, north of Mexico." Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1885–1886. Washington: GPO, 1891, pp. 68–69
- ^ Logan, Jennifer L. "Chapter 8: Linguistics" Reassessing Cultural Extinction: Change and Survival at Mission San Juan Capitstrano, Texas. College Station: Center for Ecological Archaeology, Texas A&M, 2001