Tanoan languages — Tanoan is a major linguistic grouping of Pueblo Indians. It is remotely related to the Kiowa language with which it forms the Kiowa Tanoan language family, and an even more remote relation with the Uto Aztecan and Zuni languages has been… … Wikipedia
Tanoan — noun a family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States • Syn: ↑Tanoan language • Hypernyms: ↑Amerind, ↑Amerindian language, ↑American Indian language, ↑American Indian, ↑Indian … Useful english dictionary
Kiowa language — language name=Kiowa nativename= familycolor=American states=USA region= southwestern Oklahoma speakers=1,000+ (2000 census) iso3=kio fam1=Kiowa TanoanKiowa is a Kiowa Tanoan language spoken by the Kiowa Tribe in southwestern Oklahoma in primarily … Wikipedia
Taos language — language name=Taos nativename= familycolor=American states=USA region= Taos Pueblo, NM speakers=803 (1980) iso3=twf fam1=Kiowa Tanoan fam2=Tiwa fam3=Northern Tiwa The Taos language is a Kiowa Tanoan language spoken in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico.Lynn … Wikipedia
Jemez language — language name=Jemez, Towa nativename= familycolor=American states=United States region=New Mexico speakers=1300 fam1=Kiowa Tanoan iso2= lc1=tow|ld1=Towa|ll1=Towa language Jemez (also Towa) is a Kiowa Tanoan language spoken by the Jemez Pueblo… … Wikipedia
Tanoan — Ta•no•an [[t]təˈnoʊ ən[/t]] n. peo a group of languages spoken by several Pueblo Indian peoples of N and central New Mexico, constituting together with the language of the Kiowa Indians a single language family (Kiowa Tanoan). • Etymology: 1891… … From formal English to slang
language — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) System of communication Nouns 1. language, tongue, lingo, vernacular, mother tongue, protolanguage; living or dead language; idiom, parlance, phraseology; wording; dialect, patois, cant, jargon, lingo,… … English dictionary for students
Tanoan — /tah noh euhn/, n. an American Indian language family of which the three surviving languages are spoken in several pueblos, including Taos, in northern New Mexico near the Rio Grande. [1891; coined by J.W. Powell as Tañoan, based on AmerSp Tagno… … Universalium
Tanoan — [tə nəʊən] noun a small language family comprising a number of Pueblo Indian languages. adjective relating to Tanoan. Origin from Sp. Tano + an … English new terms dictionary
language — Synonyms and related words: Abnaki, Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Afro Asiatic, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic, Anatolian, Anatolic, Andaman, Annamese, Anzanite, Apache, Arabic, Aramaic, Araucanian, Arawak,… … Moby Thesaurus