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
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Wikidata facts
Show 6 more facts
- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 9650
- Wikimedia language code
- zun
- native label
- Shiwi’ma
- P10369
- Q54
- Wikimedia Incubator URL
- incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/zun
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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.
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Categories
Indigenous languages of ArizonaIndigenous languages of New MexicoIndigenous languages of the North American SouthwestIndigenous languages of the Southwestern United StatesLanguage articles citing Ethnologue 19Language isolates of North AmericaLanguages with ISO 639-2 codePueblo linguistic areaZuni cultureZuni tribe