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Kiowa-Tanoan languages
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Kiowa-Tanoan (also Tanoan-Kiowa) is a family of languages spoken in New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Most of the languages—Tiwa, Tewa, and Towa—are spoken in the Pueblos of New Mexico and called collectively Tanoan, while Kiowa is spoken in mostly southwestern Oklahoma.
The Kiowa-Tanoan family is sometimes hypothesized to be related to the Uto-Aztecan family. This is still being investigated.
The Kiowa-Tanoan language family has seven languages grouped into four branches.
A. Kiowa
- Kiowa: 1,092 speakers (1990 census)
B. Tiwa
- I. Northern Tiwa
- II. Southern Tiwa
- Southern Tiwa
- dialects: Sandia - 144 speakers, Isleta - 1588 speakers, Ysleta del Sur - extinct
- Southern Tiwa
- III. Piro
- Piro (extinct)
C. Tewa
- Tewa: total of 1,298 speakers (1980 census)
- dialects: Arizona Tewa (Tano) and Rio Grande Tewa dialect groups: Santa Clara - 207 speakers, San Juan - 495 speakers, San Ildefonso - 349 speakers, Nambe - 50 speakers, Pojoaque - 25 speakers, and Tesuque - 172 speakers
D. Jemez
- Jemez (a.k.a. Towa): 1,301 speakers (1990 census)
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