Tanoan (Noun)
Meaning
A family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States.
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Examples
- The Tanoan language family consists of six distinct languages, including Kiowa and Tiwa.
- Linguists have been studying the Tanoan languages to understand the historical migrations of Native American groups.
- Tanoan languages are part of the larger language family of indigenous peoples in North America.
- Tiwa is one of the more well-known languages in the Tanoan language family.
- Jemez, another language within the Tanoan language family, has several different dialects spoken throughout the southwestern United States.