Tiwa languages
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| Tiwa, Tewa | ||
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| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | New Mexico, Arizona | |
| Total speakers: | <3000 | |
| Language family: | Kiowa-Tanoan Tiwa, Tewa |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | ||
| ISO 639-3: | variously: tix — Southern Tiwa tew — Tewa twf — Northern Tiwa |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Tiwa, in Spanish Tigua, is a group of closely related languages spoken by some Pueblo people in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Northern Tiwa is spoken in Taos Pueblo and Picuris Pueblo, while Southern Tiwa is spoken in Isleta Pueblo and Sandia Pueblo. An extinct language in the family, Piro, was spoken near Socorro, New Mexico.
After the Pueblo Revolt against the Spanish Conquistadors in 1680, a few of the Tigua from Piro fled south with the Spanish to El Paso del Norte (present-day Ciudad Juárez, Mexico). There they founded Ysleta, Texas, where their descendants live to this day.
See also: Jornada del Muerto
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