Cotoname language

{{Short description|Extinct Pakawan language of North America}}{{Cleanup lang|date=October 2024|iso=xcn}}{{Infobox language

| name = Cotoname

| states = Mexico, United States

| region = lower Rio Grande

| extinct = {{circa|1900}}

| familycolor = hokan

| fam1 = Hokan ?

| fam2 = Coahuiltecan ?

| fam3 = Pakawan ?

| iso3 = xcn

| linglist = xcn

| glotto = coto1248

| glottorefname = Cotoname

| map = Cotoname lang.png

| mapcaption = Map indicating where Cotoname was spoken

| ethnicity = Cotoname

}}

Cotoname{{refn|Or Cotonamu.{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Thomas C. |last2=Naylor |first2=Thomas H. |last3=Polzer |first3=Charles W. |title=Northern New Spain: A Research Guide |publisher=University of Arizona |url=https://open.uapress.arizona.edu/read/northern-new-spain-a-research-guide/section/1f21260b-5632-4c85-a79f-dde8198f2c5c |access-date=10 May 2024}}}} is an Indigenous language of Mexico and the American state of Texas formerly spoken by Native Americans indigenous to the lower Rio Grande Valley of northeastern Mexico and extreme southern Texas (United States). Today it is extinct, and is proposed to be a component of a Pakawan language family.

All known primary witnesses to the Cotoname language were published in 2024.Haukur Þorgeirsson and Alaric Hall, 'The Cotoname Language – The Primary Sources', Zenodo (2024), {{doi|10.5281/zenodo.13368224}}.