Taos

Facts

  • Language: Taos
  • Alternate names: Northern Tiwa, Tiwa, Northern, Tiwa, Tiwa (Northern)
  • Language code: twf
  • Language family: Kiowa-Tanoan, Tanoan (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: 800
  • Vulnerability: Endangered
  • Script: Latin script.

More information:

    Ethnologue puts Taos and Picuris together in its "Northern Tiwa" [twf], lists Taos and Picuris as dialects, but yet says that "Taos and Picuris are not mutually intelligible (Golla 2007)." Others distinguish these as two separate languages.