Tubar language

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Tubar
Tubare
Native to Mexico
Regionsouthern Chihuahua
Extinct 1940s–1970s [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tbu
Glottolog tuba1279

Tubar or Tubare, is an extinct language of southern Chihuahua, Mexico that belonged to the Uto-Aztecan language family.

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Morphology

Tubar is an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morphemes strung together. [2] [3]

Sample text

The following two samples are the Lord's Prayer in Tubar. [4]

Ite cañar tegmue carichui catemat;
Imit tegmuarac milituraba teochigualac;
Imit huegmica cariniti bacachin-assisaguin
Imit avamunarir echu nañigualac imo cuigan
amo nachic tegmuecarichin.
Ite cokuatarit essemer taniguarit iabla ite micam;
Ite tatacoli ikiri atzomua ikirirain ite bacachin
cale kuegmua nañiguá cantem;
Caioa ite nosam baca tatacoli; bacachin
ackiró muetzerac ite.
The other version of the Lord's Prayer is slightly different from the first; it may be transcribed differently or be a different dialect.

Hite cañac temo calichin catema;
himite muhará huiturabá santoñetará;
himitemo acarí hay sesahui hitebacachin
hitaramaré hechinemolac amo cuira pan
amotemo calichin.
hitecocohatari éseme tan huaric llava hitemichin;
tatacoli higuíli hite nachi higuiriray hite bacachin
calquihuan nehun conten;
hitehohui catehue cheraca tatacoli; bacachin
hiquipo calquihuá ñahuité baquit ebacahin calaserac.

References

  1. Tubar at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. Lionnet, A. (1978). El idioma tubar y los tubares: según documentos inéditos de CS Lumholtz y CV Hartman. Univ. Iberoamericana.
  3. 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.

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