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Kiowa-Tanoan

North American Language Families

Kiowa-Tanoan, also called Tanoan or Tanoan-Kiowa (Wikipedia's own article is titled Tanoan languages), is a family of seven languages spoken by indigenous peoples of the American Southwest, divided into four branches: Kiowa, Jemez (Towa), Tiwa, with Northern and Southern varieties, and Tewa, plus the extinct Piro. Most speakers live in Native American pueblos of New Mexico and Arizona, while Kiowa speakers are concentrated in southwestern Oklahoma, though the Kiowa people historically ranged across Texas, Oklahoma and western Montana. About 5,625 native speakers remain across the family, ranging from 20 speakers of Kiowa to 1,800 speakers of Jemez.

Facts
Region
New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas 1
Proto-Language Status
Consonants of Proto-Tanoan have been reconstructed by Hale 1967 from stem-initial correspondences; vowel quality and prosodic features such as length, tone and stress remain unreconstructed for the family. 1
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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Tanoan (Kiowa-Tanoan) Languages
Wikimedia Foundation
  • lead section, sentence 1
    also Kiowa-Tanoan or Tanoan-Kiowa, is a family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples in present-day New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
  • Historical phonology section
    Vowel quality and prosodic features like vowel length, tone, and stress have not yet been reconstructed for the Tanoan family.
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Wikidata: Tanoan
Wikidata Q386288, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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