Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- central North America
- Native speakers
- ~5,625
- Linguistic classification
- One of the world's primary language families
- Subdivisions
- Tiwa Tewa Towa Kiowa
- Linguasphere
- 64-C
- Glottolog
- kiow1265
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 9230
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Tanoan (/təˈnoʊ.ən/ 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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language family
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Inuit–Yupik–Unangan
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Indigenous languages of the Americas
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fricative consonant
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Haida
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Keresan
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Yuman–Cochimí
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Jemez
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Tiwa
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Southern Tiwa
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North America
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Texas
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Kansas
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New Mexico
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Oklahoma
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Indo-European
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International Phonetic Alphabet
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Basque
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