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Name:
Keres, Eastern
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Rio Grande Keresan; Eastern Keresan; Eastern Keres Pueblo; Santa Ana; Keres; Keresan (Santa Ana); Keresan
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
4,580. 463 Zia, 229 Santa Ana, 1,560 San Felipe, 1,888 Santo Domingo, 384 Cochiti; US Census (2000) lists 11,210 as “Keres”. Ethnic population: 5,701 including 602 Zia, 374 Santa Ana, 1,789 San Felipe, 2,140 Santo Domingo, 796 Cochiti
(Ethnologue)
Code:
kee
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Isolates & Small Families
Parent Subgroup:
Keres; Keresan; Keresan Isolate (kere)
Child Dialects:
Santo Domingo; Santa Dominago (kee-sad)
Cochiti; Cochití (kee-coc)
Zia; Zia-Santa Ana; Sia (kee-zia)
Santa Ana (kee-saa)
San Felipe; Santa Ana (kee-san)
Brief Description:
"Rio Grande Keresan is a complex of Keresan dialects spoken by members of five New Mexico Pueblos located near the Rio Grande or Jemez River norther of Albuquerque: Zia, SantaAna, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, and Cochiti. There is considerable local variation, but all varieties are mutually intelligible, as well as partially intelligible to speakers of Acoma-Laguna. Rates of language retention vary considerably from community to community, as do attitudes towards language preservation efforts. In general, outsiders are discouraged from learning the language, and this is especially strongly enforced at Santo Domingo and San Felipe. At Zia there are about 500 speakers out of a total population of approximately 800; there are relatively few speakers under 20, but at least some children acquire the language. At Santa Ana there are about 385 speakers out of a total population of approximately 650. At San Felipe an estimated 90 per cent of the population of over 2,600 speak the language, and most children acquire it. At Santo Domingo nearly all of the Pueblo's population of approximately 2,850 are speakers. At Cochiti about half of the total population of approximately 1,200 speak the language, few if any of them children." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 21
Map of Keres, Eastern
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