Corachol languages

{{Short description|Grouping of languages in the Uto-Aztecan language family}} {{Infobox language family | name = Corachol | region = western Mexico | fam1 = Uto-Aztecan | fam2 = Southern | familycolor = Uto-Aztecan | child1 = ''Cora'' | child2 = ''Huichol'' | glotto = cora1259 | glottorefname = Corachol | child3 = ?''Guachichil'' {{extinct}} | child4 = ''Zacateco'' {{extinct}}<ref name="Atlas">{{Cite book |last=Moseley |first=Christopher |title=Atlas of the world's languages |last2=Asher |first2=Ronald E. |date=1994 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-01925-5 |location=London}}</ref> | child5 = ''Irritila'' {{extinct}}<ref name="Atlas" /> }}

'''Corachol''' (alternatively '''Coracholan''', '''Cora-Huichol''' or '''Coran''') is a grouping of languages within the Uto-Aztecan language family. The living members of Coracholan are the Huichol and Cora languages, spoken by communities in Jalisco and Nayarit, states in central Mexico. Guachichil, Zacateco, and Lagunero/Irritila may have belonged as well. However, Cazcan is sometimes believed to have been a Nahuan language instead, and Guachichil has also been linked to the areal Coahuiltecan languages.<ref name="Atlas" />

Corachol languages are Mesoamerican languages, and display many of the traits defined by the Mesoamerican linguistic area, or ''sprachbund''.

== Languages ==

* Cora ** Totorame {{extinct}} * Huichol ** Tecual {{extinct}} ** ?Zacateco {{extinct}} ** ?Lagunero (Irritila?) {{extinct}} * Guachichil {{extinct}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Miller |first=Wick R. |date=July 1983 |title=A Note on Extinct Languages of Northwest Mexico of Supposed Uto-Aztecan Affiliation |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/465793 |journal=International Journal of American Linguistics |language=en |volume=49 |issue=3 |pages=328–334 |doi=10.1086/465793 |issn=0020-7071|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

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Category:Southern Uto-Aztecan languages Category:Mesoamerican languages