tanoan
IPA: tɑnˈoʊʌn
Root Word: Tanoan
adjective
- Of or relating to a family of languages spoken in New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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Examples of "tanoan" in Sentences
- Tanoan has never been demonstrated to be related to Uto Aztecan.
- Kiowa and Tanoan have the same alternations in several cognate sets.
- Again these may have spread to Zuni via contact with Tanoan and Keresan.
- However, most others have placed it on a separate branch within Kiowa Tanoan.
- Tiwa and Tewa are closely related languages of the Kiowa Tanoan language family.
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