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Tewa is a Tanoan language spoken by Pueblo people, mostly in the Rio Grande valley in New Mexico north of Santa Fe, and in Arizona. It is also known as Tano,[2] or (archaic) Tée-wah.

Tewa
Native to	United States
Region	New Mexico
Ethnicity	Tewa people
Native speakers	1,600 (2007)[1]
Language family	Tanoan Tewa
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tew
Glottolog	tewa1261
ELP	Tewa
Linguasphere	64-CAB-a
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Dialects and usage

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:

• Nambe Pueblo: 50 speakers (1980); 34 speakers (2004)[3]
• Pojoaque Pueblo: 25 speakers (1980)
• San Ildefonso Pueblo (P'ohwhóge Owingeh): 349 speakers^{[citation needed]}
• Ohkay Owingeh: 495 speakers (1980)^{[citation needed]}
• Santa Clara Pueblo: 207 speakers (1980)^{[citation needed]}
• Tesuque Pueblo: 172 speakers (1980)

As of 2012, Tewa is defined as "severely endangered" in New Mexico by UNESCO.[4]

In the names "Pojoaque" and "Tesuque", the element spelled "que" (pronounced something like [ɡe] in Tewa, or /ki/ in English) is Tewa for "place".

Tewa can be written with the Latin script; this is occasionally used for such purposes as signs (Be-pu-wa-ve, "Welcome", or sen-ge-de-ho, "Bye"). Because alphabet systems have been developed in the different pueblos, Tewa has a variety of orthographies rather than a single standardized alphabet.[5] The written form of the language is not as ubiquitous as in languages such as Cherokee or Navajo, because some Tewa speakers feel that the language should be passed on through the oral tradition.[2] The Tewa language was a spoken language through the 1960s; digital language documentation efforts were underway as of 1995.[6]

Phonology

The phonemes of Rio Grande Tewa are as follows:[7]

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Glottal
						nor.	lab.
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	ts	tʃ	k	kʷ	ʔ
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	tsʼ	tʃʼ	kʼ	kʷʼ
	voiced	b	d		dʒ	ɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f	θ	s	ʃ	x	xʷ	h
	voiced	v
Nasal		m	n		ɲ
Tap/Flap			ɾ
Approximant					j		w

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	i ĩ	u ũ
Close-mid	e ẽ	o õ
Open	æ æ̃	a ã

Language revitalization

Esther Martinez, who lived to be 94 years old, was nationally known for her commitment to preserving the Tewa language.[8] Her San Juan Pueblo Tewa Dictionary was published in 1982. The Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act is named for her, and as of Sept. 15, 2012, members of the New Mexico congressional delegation have introduced legislation to extend the program for another five years.[9]^{[needs update]}

Tewa language programs are available for children in most of the Tewa-speaking pueblos.[2][10] The Santa Clara Pueblo Tewa Language Revitalization Program also sponsors cultural activities, such as visiting Crow Canyon.[11][12]

Children's stories in Tewa have been digitized by the University of New Mexico, and are available online.[13][14]

A 2012 documentary film, "The Young Ancestors", follows a group of teenagers from Santa Fe Preparatory School as they learn the Tewa language in a self-study program with the help of a mentor, seventh grade literature teacher Laura Kaye Jagles.[15]

References

• Harrington, John P. (1910). A brief description of the Tewa language. American Anthropologist, 12, 497-504.
• Speirs, Randall. (1966). Some aspects of the structure of Rio Grande Tewa. (Doctoral dissertation, SUNY Buffalo).
• Martinez, Esther. (1982). San Juan Pueblo Tewa Dictionary. San Juan Pueblo Bilingual Program, San Juan Pueblo, New Mexico.

Further reading

• "Pueblo Stories--in Tewa--Digitized at the University of New Mexico". 6 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-27.
• Wilfred William Robbins; John Peabody Harrington; Barbara W. Freire-Marreco (1916). Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians. Govt. Printing Office. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
• John Peabody Harrington (1916). The ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
• Junius Henderson; John Peabody Harrington (1914). Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians. U.S. Government Printing Office. Retrieved 25 August 2012.
• Ortman, Scott G. (2012) Winds from the North: Tewa Origins and Historical Anthropology. ISBN 978-1-60781-172-5.

External links

• Tano/Tewa Indian Language
• OLAC resources in and about the Tewa language
• Tewa Language-SantaFedia
• New Testament in Tewa
• Research paper on Tewa Archived 2018-04-07 at the Wayback Machine

На других языках

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- [en] Tewa language

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[es] Idioma tegua

La lengua tegua es una lengua de la familia tañoana hablado por los indios pueblo, sobre todo en el valle del Río Grande en Nuevo México, al norte de Santa Fe, así como en Arizona. También se le conoce como Taño o Tewa.[2]

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[fr] Tewa (langue amérindienne)

Le tewa est une langue amérindienne de la famille kiowa-tano parlée dans plusieurs pueblos du Nouveau-Mexique ainsi qu'à Hano dans la réserve des Hopis en Arizona.

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[ru] Тева (язык)

Тева (Tewa) — находящийся под угрозой исчезновения кайова-таноанский язык, на котором говорит народ тева, проживающий на статистически обособленных местностях Намбе, Окей-Овинге, Похоаке, Санта-Клара, Санта-Фе, Сан-Ильдефонсо, Сан-Хуан, Тесуке штата Нью-Мексико, в деревне Хано резервации Хопи штата Аризона в США.

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