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Tewa language - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Afghan, Afghani, Afrikaans, Ainu, Akan, Akkadian, Albanian, Aleut, Algonquian, Algonquin, Amharic, Anatolian, Andaman, Apache, Arabic, Aramaic, Araucanian, Arawak, Arawakan, Armenian, Aryan, Assamese |
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Tewa is a Native American language spoken by Pueblo people, mostly in the Rio Grande valley in New Mexico north of Santa Fe. It belongs to the Tewa-Tiwa branch of the Kiowa-Tanoan family. The 1980 census counted 1,298 speakers, almost all of whom are bilingual in English. Each pueblo or reservation where it is spoken has a dialect:
Tewa is also spoken by Tewa people who live at Hano on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.
The element "que" (pronounced something like /ke/, or /ki/ in English) in "Pojoaque" and "Tesuque" is Tewa for "place".
A system for writing Tewa with the Latin alphabet has been devised. It is occasionally used for such purposes as signs (Be-pu-wa-ve, "Welcome"). Otherwise, unlike such languages as Navajo and Cherokee, Tewa is not normally written by its speakers.
External link
Ethnologue page on Tewa (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=TEW)
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Example Usage of language |
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cr9lemon: I'm wanna learn the Japanese language so badly! It's sooo ficking complicated tho 4real. |
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