| 释义 |
Tiwa, n. (and a.)|ˈtiːwə|
Also Tigua.
[ad. Sp. Tigua, f. Jemez (or Pecos) téw̓a Isletan, f. Isleta tíwan pl.]
(A member of) a Pueblo Indian people living in the upper Rio Grande valley, comprising the Northern Tiwa (Taos and Picuris), in New Mexico, and the Tigua Pueblo (Ysleta del Sur) in western Texas; the branch of Tanoan whose languages are spoken by this people; spec. the language of Isleta. Also attrib. or as adj.
1710J. Senex (map) in Rep. U.S. Geogr. Surveys West of 100th Meridian (1889) I. facing p. 510 Inhabited by the Tiguas. 1893A. F. Bandelier Gilded Man iv. 212 [Alvarado] carried their prisoners to the Tiguas. The Tiguas were very angry at this act, for..peace prevailed between them and the Pecos. 1896F. W. Hodge in Amer. Anthropologist IX. 345 The Piros are found, intermixed with some Tiwa, at the villages of Senecú and Isleta del Sur. 1910Amer. Anthropologist XII. 24 In the Tiwa language the morphological element is usually a syllable, that is, a consonant plus a vowel or diphthong. 1939Language XV. 51 The Taos language forms with that of Picurís..the northern branch of Tiwa. 1950Southwestern Jrnl. Anthropol. VI. 283 Tiwa social organization shows relative consistency if one side-steps terminology in the literature. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics X. 141 The Kiowa-Tanoan language family, some of whose daughter languages (Tiwa, Tewa and Towa) were found in the Southwest culture area. 1987Nat. Geographic Nov. 626 ‘The kids watch television too much,’ one Isleta grandmother said. ‘They talk English to each other, not Tiwa.’ 1989Encycl. Brit. XII. 865/1 The Tigua (Tiwa) Indians maintain a museum and an arts and crafts centre in Ysleta; many of them are direct descendants of the Indians who fled the Pueblo revolt. |