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.
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RegionNew Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas 2 Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusProto-Tanoan consonant inventory reconstructed by Hale (1967) 2 Browse and compare
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Tanoan ( tə-NOH-ən), also Kiowa–Tanoan or Tanoan–Kiowa, is a family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples in present-day New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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1. Glottolog: Kiowa-Tanoan (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 8
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Tanoan languages - Wikipedia
Introduction, paragraph 1
family of languages spoken by indigenous peoples in present-day New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Infobox: speakers
~5,625
Historical phonology section
The chart below contains the consonants of the Tanoan proto-language as reconstructed by Hale (1967)
View the SourceWikidata: Tanoan
Wikidata Q386288, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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