Karankawa language

Karankawa
Keles
Native to	United States
Region	Texas coast, from Galveston Island to Corpus Christi
Ethnicity	Karankawa people
Extinct	1858
Language family	unclassified
Language codes
ISO 639-3	zkk
Linguist List	zkk
Glottolog	kara1289
Pre-contact distribution of the Karankawa language, lacking the historical inclusion of the Houston-Galveston area

Karankawa /kəˈræŋkəwə/^[1] is the extinct, unclassified language of the Texas coast, where the Karankawa people migrated between the mainland and the barrier islands. It was not closely related to other known languages in the area, many of which are also poorly attested, and may have been a language isolate. A couple hundred words are preserved, collected in 1698, 1720, and 1828; in the 1880s, three lists were collected from non-Karankawa who knew some words.

Karankawa has sometimes been included with neighboring languages in a Coahuiltecan family, but that is now thought to be spurious. ^{[citation needed]}