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Tanoan

North American Language Families

Tanoan, also Kiowa-Tanoan or Tanoan-Kiowa, is a family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples in present-day New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Facts
Region
New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas 1
Speaker Count
5625 1
Proto-Language Status
Proto-Tanoan consonant inventory reconstructed by Hale (1967) 1
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1. Tanoan languages - Wikipedia
  • Introduction, paragraph 1
    family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples in present-day New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
  • Infobox
    Native speakers: ~5,625
  • Historical phonology section
    The chart below contains the consonants of the Tanoan proto-language as reconstructed by Hale (1967)
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Wikidata: Tanoan
Wikidata Q386288, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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