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.

Sources

  • . www.native-languages.org.