Key facts
- Pronunciation
- [ˈʃiwiʔma]
- Native to
- U.S.
- Region
- Western New Mexico
- Ethnicity
- Zuni
- Native speakers
- 9,620 (2015)
- Language family
- Language isolate
- Iso 639 2
- zun
- Iso 639 3
- zun
- Glottolog
- zuni1245
- Elp
- Zuni
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- modern language
- Subclass of
- human language
- Country
- United States
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- topic's main category
- Category:Zuni language
- writing system
- Latin script
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 9650
- linguistic typology
- language isolate
- Wikimedia language code
- zun
- native label
- Shiwi’ma
- indigenous to
- New Mexico
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/zun
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Encyclopedic overview
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Zuni (/ˈzuːni/ ZOO-nee; endonym: Shiwiʼma) is a language of the Zuni people, indigenous to western New Mexico and eastern Arizona in the United States. It is spoken by around 9,500 people, especially in the vicinity of Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, and much smaller numbers in parts of Arizona.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zuni” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.