Tubar language


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.

Sample text

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