Quinigua language

Quinigua (also Guinigua or Quinicuane ) was an indigenous language that was formerly spoken in the state of Nuevo Leon in northeastern Mexico. It is now extinct. His genetic classification is unclear.

The Quinigua was the language of Borrado who lived in the area between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Sierre Tamaulipa la Nueva, between the Rio Grande and the Río Grande del Pilon.

The Quinigua is documented mainly in the form of single words, the sind.Aufgrund contained in documents of the municipal archives of Monterrey from the period between the late 16th and the late 18th century to lack of data is a definite judgment about the genetic relationship the Quinigua not possible with other languages. The older hypothesis that Quinigua belong to coahuiltekischen language family is not supported by the documented words, a more distant relationship with the Coahuiltekischen however, can be neither excluded nor proven.