Maratino is a poorly attested extinct language that was spoken in north-east Mexico, near Martín, Tamaulipas. Swanton, who called it 'Tamaulipeco', classified it as Uto-Aztecan based on a few obvious cognates, such as Maratino chiguat 'woman' ~ Nahuatl cihuātl 'woman' and peyot 'peyote' ~ Nahuatl peyotl, but other scholars have not considered this to be enough to classify the language.
Vocabulary
The following vocabulary list of Maratino is from John Swanton (1940: 122–124).
{ | class="wikitable sortable" ! gloss !! Maratino |- | able || kugtima |- | after the manner of || niwa |- | although || kuaahne |- | and || he |- | arrow || ciri |- | bird || magtc |- | bow || mahkā |- | but yet || kuaahne |- | children || tzikuini |- | come home, to || utepa |- | cord || pong |- | cry, to || mimigihi |- | deer || kons(gio) |- | (diminutive suffix) || -i |- | drink, to || baah(ka) |- | eat, to || migtikui |- | enemy || koapagtzi |- | escape, to || kugtima |- | far || kuiüsikuima |- | flee, to || pamini |- | forces || koh |- | forest (?) || tamu |- | go, to || nohgima |- | joy || maamehe |- | kill, to || paahtcu |- | leap, to || maatzimetzu |- | like || niwa |- | lion || xuri |- | little || -i |- | many || a-a |- | meat || migtikui |- | mountain || tamu |- | not || -he |- | now || mohka |- | our || ming |- | peyote || peyot |- | (plural suffix) || -a |- | run, to || kuino, kugtima |- | see, to || tepeh |- | shots || katama |- | shout, to || nohgima |- | shout for joy, to || maamehe |- | sleep, to || tutcē |- | strength || koh |- | the || tze |- | them || me |- | these || tze |- | to || tamu |- | unable || kugtimā |- | us || ko, ming |- | very || kuiüsikuima |- | war, to || tamu |- | we || ming |- | weep, to || mimigihi |- | without || -he |- | wolf || bum |- | woman || tciwat |- | woods || tamu |- | yet || kuaahne |}
References
Further reading
Swanton, John. 1940. Linguistic material from the tribes of southern Texas and northern Mexico. (122–124)