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Tanoan, n. and a.|təˈnəʊən|
[f. Sp. Tano, ad. Southern Tewa self-designation ˈthánu, + -an.]
A. n. A family of languages spoken in parts of New Mexico and Arizona by Pueblo Indians; also, the group of people which speaks these languages.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating this linguistic group.
1891J. W. Powell Indian Linguistic Families of Amer. 121 Tañoan. 1909Amer. Anthropologist XI. 564 The Keres (Queres) are introduced among tribes speaking languages of the Tanoan family. 1925[see Keres]. 1928J. P. Harrington Vocab. Kiowa Lang. 1 A brief text [has]..been included, as well as Tanoan etymologies taken from the Tewa dialect spoken at San Juan Pueblo near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ibid. 11 In the Tanoan languages, several of the consonants have a hard and a soft form. 1941C. F. Voegelin Language, Culture & Personality 28 Only fragmentary notes and word lists for Tanoan were available. Taos was taken as a type for Tanoan phonetics and morphology. 1950F. Eggan Social Organization of Western Pueblos 314 The Tanoan groups in the Rio Grande. 1959G. L. & E. L. Trager in Amer. Anthropologist LXI. 1078 (title) Kiowa and Tanoan. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 810/2 Tanoan languages, the family of Aztec-Tanoan languages spoken in the valley of the Rio Grande in..New Mexico, U.S., including Northern Tiwa, Southern Tiwa, Piro, Tewa, Tano (the type language), and Towa; spoken by about 5,000 people (24,500 in 1680). |