Karankawa /kəˈræŋkəwə/[1] is the extinct, unclassified language of the Texas coast, where the Karankawa people migrated between the mainland and the barrier islands.

Karankawa has sometimes been included with neighboring languages in a Coahuiltecan family, but that is now thought to be spurious.

[citation needed] There were also possible lateral affricate sounds [tɬ, dɮ] which were represented as .

[2] Though only a few hundred words of the Karankawa language are preserved, the following are selected words recorded by Albert Gatschet, a late Victorian anthropologist and linguist, referenced from the last fluent speakers of the language.

[3] The following vocabulary list of Karankawa is from John Swanton (1940).