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{{Short description|Extinct Pakawan language of Texas and Mexico}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Garza
| nativename       = 
| region           = [[Texas]]
| extinct          = 19th century
| familycolor      = hokan
| fam1             = [[Hokan languages|Hokan]] ?
| fam2             = [[Coahuiltecan languages|Coahuiltecan]] ?
| fam3             = [[Pakawan languages|Pakawan]] ?
| fam4             = [[Comecrudan languages|Comecrudan]]
| iso3             = xgr
| linglist         = xgr
| glotto           = garz1234
| ethnicity        = Garza
| states           = [[United States]], [[Mexico]]
| altname          = Meakán
}}

'''Garza''', also called '''Meakán''', is an extinct [[Comecrudan languages|Comecrudan language]] of [[Texas]] and [[Mexico]]. It is known from two tribal names and twenty-one words recorded from the chief of the Garza by [[Jean-Louis Berlandier]] in 1828 (Berlandier et al. 1828&ndash;1829, 1850: 143&ndash;144). At that time, the Garza all spoke [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and were acculturated. The Garza may have been the same as the [[Atanguaypacam]] tribe (of the [[Comecrudo language|Comecrudo]]) recorded in 1748. The Garza were called {{lang|xcn|Meacknan}} or {{lang|xcn|Miákan}} by the neighboring [[Cotoname]] (Gatschet 1886: 54) while they called the Cotoname {{lang|xgr|Yué}}. ''Garza'' is Spanish for "[[heron]]."

==References==
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== Sources ==
* Berlandier, Jean L.; & Chowell, Rafael (1828–1829). [Vocabularies of languages of south Texas and the lower Rio Grande]. (Additional manuscripts, no. 38720, in the British Library, London.)
* Berlandier, Jean L.; & Chowell, Rafael (1850). Luis Berlandier and Rafael Chovell. ''Diario de viage de la Commission de Limites''. Mexico.
* [[Albert Samuel Gatschet|Gatschet, Albert S.]] (1886). [Comecrudo and Cotoname vocabularies, collected at Las Prietas, Tamaulipas]. Ms. 297, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
* Saldivar, Gabriel. (1943). ''Los indios de Tamaulipas''. Instituto panamerico de geografía e historia, Publication 70.

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{{North American languages}}

[[Category:Pakawan languages]]
[[Category:Comecrudan languages]]
[[Category:Extinct languages of North America]]


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