Tiwa languages

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Tiwa
Spoken in: United States 
Region: New Mexico, Arizona
Total speakers: <3000
Language family: Kiowa-Tanoan
 Tiwa
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: either:
tix – Southern Tiwa
twf – Northern Tiwa
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Tiwa, (Spanish Tigua, also E-nagh-magh[1], is a group of three closely related Kiowa-Tanoan languages spoken by the Tiwa Pueblo people groups in the U.S. state of New Mexico.

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[edit] Subfamily members and relations

Southern Tiwa is spoken in Isleta Pueblo and Sandia Pueblo and was formerly spoken in Tigua Pueblo.

The remaining two languages form a subgrouping known as Northern Tiwa. Northern Tiwa consists of Taos spoken in Taos Pueblo and Picuris spoken in Picuris Pueblo.

[edit] Piro

An extinct language, Piro (Piro Pueblo), was formerly spoken near Socorro, New Mexico. It is poorly attested. This language has sometimes been connected to the Tiwa language subfamily. However, others have placed it on a separate branch within Kiowa-Tanoan. William Leap has even contested that if it is really even related to the other Kiowa-Tanoan family.

[edit] History

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.

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[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Lane in Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe (1851-1857) Historical and statistical information respecting the history, condition, and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States; collected and prepared under the direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847 Lippincott, Philadelphia, OCLC 6202862

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