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Kiowa-Tanoan languages map

6 Kiowa-Tanoan languages are on the map, most of them in United States. It divides into 2 main branches, the largest being Tiwa-Piro (3 languages). The best-known members include Towa, Taos Northern Tiwa and Kiowa. Only this family is drawn; tap the map to list every language at a spot.

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Key

Language families (largest ten)

  • Atlantic-Congo
  • Austronesian
  • Sino-Tibetan
  • Indo-European
  • Afro-Asiatic
  • Nuclear Trans New Guinea
  • Otomanguean
  • Austroasiatic
  • Tai-Kadai
  • Pama-Nyungan

Everything else

  • All other families Smaller families, isolates and unclassified languages.
  • Point A language with no area map. The dot sits at its Glottolog position, in its family colour.

How to read the map. Each colour is a language family: a group of languages that share a common ancestor. The ten largest families have their own colour and every other family is grey. Areas are see-through, so where two languages share a place the colours mix. Tap anywhere to list every language whose area covers that spot. Areas are generalisations drawn from published atlases, many of them decades old, and cities are multilingual, so an area never says that everyone there speaks the language. A dot marks a language that has no area map. The family name is always given in words, because colour alone is hard to tell apart for some people.

The Kiowa-Tanoan family at a glance

  • 6languages
  • 0drawn as areas
  • 6shown as points
  • 2main branches

Colours on the map mark the ten largest families; this page’s filter shows Kiowa-Tanoan alone. Areas are generalisations from published atlases and overlap with the areas of other families.

Biggest Kiowa-Tanoan languages

By approximate speaker counts from Wikidata, each with its source and year on its own page.

  1. Where is Towa spoken? (about 3,000 speakers)
  2. Where is Taos Northern Tiwa spoken? (about 800 speakers)
  3. Where is Kiowa spoken? (about 20 speakers)

Branches of Kiowa-Tanoan

The second level of the Glottolog family tree.

  • Tiwa-Piro (3)
  • Tewa (1)

Where Kiowa-Tanoan languages are spoken

Countries with the most Kiowa-Tanoan languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

All 6 Kiowa-Tanoan languages, A to Z

Questions about Kiowa-Tanoan languages

How many Kiowa-Tanoan languages are there?

6 living Kiowa-Tanoan languages are on this map, in the Glottolog classification. They fall into 2 main branches, the biggest being Tiwa-Piro (3 languages). Other classifications group languages differently, so totals vary.

Where are Kiowa-Tanoan languages spoken?

United States (6) have the most Kiowa-Tanoan languages, with the number of languages in brackets.

What are the biggest Kiowa-Tanoan languages?

By the approximate speaker counts Wikidata holds: Towa (about 3,000), Taos Northern Tiwa (about 800) and Kiowa (about 20). These figures differ between sources and years.

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