| COAHUILTECAN reference area and notional set (of a geographic COAHUILTECO* sequence of extinct languages in Mexico/Tamaulipas & USA/Texas) ➤ for purposes of reference, and to help complete the picture of North America's extreme linguistic complexity prior to ethnic clearance, these languages have been treated below as successive components of a notional set. The following represent only the principal communities among several hundreds named in this area by early European invaders, prior to their being destroyed, dispersed or linguistically submerged ◁ [51=] Español and/or [52=] English |