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Name: Piro Type: Language Alternate Names: Senecu; Tompiro Once Spoken in: USA Code: pie Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Kiowa-Tanoan (Kiowa Tanoan) Parent Subgroup: Piro (piro) Brief Description: "Piro was a Kiowa-Tanoan language, formerly spoken in a number of now-abandoned pueblos in the Rio Grande Valley south of Isleta. After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 most of the Piros, together with some Isletas and other Southern Tiwas, moved south to the vicinity of El Paso and established new settlements, only one of which, Ysleta del Sur, still remains. No speakers of Piro survived into the twentieth century and documentation is sparse, although small amounts continue to be discovered in Spanish mission records. Another language, Tompiro, attested in many of the same early sources, is probably a dialect of Piro." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 21

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Linguist List Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed