The Coca language is a poorly attested Uto-Aztecan language, ostensibly of the Taracahitic subgroup, formerly spoken in the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Vocabulary In the 1930s and 1940s, the historian José Ignacio Dávila Garibi compiled a number of lexical items in the Coca language from historical documents. Other Uto-Aztecan languages are included here for comparison.
gloss Coca Cahita Yaqui Cora Western Peripheral Nahuatl father, chief tatachi nachai achai nitáata tahtli mother, patroness, lady nanachi nae ae, maala naána nāntzin food tachacate buhuame bwa'ame cua'ira tacualli/ihtacate sugarcane samná sama yoisana huiini oat deer (sg/pl) neari/nearin maso maaso muasá/muasate mazāt/mazāme water a/ac bá ba'am jaj āt/āl river, stream aque háqui jakia achi/játa'ana ātōyātl/ātōyātontli to wash tapaca hipacsia baksia, jipaksia rajá'usiin tapāca to rest següe iumiore kopana, yumjoe rusa'upe zēhuiā
Two Coca toponyms are recorded in the : Tapichinticahui (Juchitlán) and Tasnahui (Ocotlán).
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