Kiowa (Noun)
Meaning 1
The Tanoan language spoken by the Kiowa.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Kiowa language is a member of the Plains Apache branch of the Southwestern branch of the Athabascan-Eyak-Tlingit language family, although it is often classified as a language isolate.
- Kiowa is an agglutinative language using many suffixes, with a complex phonology that includes a number of consonant and vowel features not found in many other languages.
- The language known as Kiowa or Kiowa Tano is the indigenous language spoken by the Kiowa tribe, an equestrian culture traditionally occupying parts of what are now western and north-central Oklahoma and smaller portions of other parts of Oklahoma and northern Texas.
- Until recently the use of the Kiowa language in most formal, professional and other outside-home environments, except at certain tribally-run community-based settings such as an office environment was and may remain officially suppressed, giving young children as of a recent date little reason to be motivated to effectively acquire it.
- The language isolate we call "Kiowa", with its unique sound, grammar and concepts all indigenous to North America, may be an artifact from ancient North America that stretches beyond the history as we (people) know it today.
Hypernyms
Meaning 2
A member of a Tanoan people living in the southwestern United States.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The Kiowa tribe was forcibly relocated from their ancestral lands to a reservation in Oklahoma during the late 19th century.
- She was a Kiowa artist known for her vibrant paintings of Native American life and culture.
- The Kiowa language is a member of the Tanoan language family and is still spoken by some tribal members today.
- As a Kiowa elder, he played an important role in preserving the tribe's traditions and stories.
- The Kiowa people have a rich history of skilled horsemanship and buffalo hunting on the Great Plains.