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Name: Arizona Tewa Type: Language Alternate Names: Hopi Tewa; Tewa; Tewa (Arizona); Rio Grande Tewa; Hano; Tano; Hopi-Tewa; Tano (First Mesa) Spoken in: USA Number of speakers: 1,300 (2000 census), decreasing. 18 monolinguals (1990 US census). 50 Nambe, 25 Pojoaque, 349 San Ildefonso, 495 San Juan, 207 Santa Clara, 172 Tesuque (1980 US census). Ethnic population: 3,925 (2000 US census) (Ethnologue) Number of speakers: 3200 (UNESCO) Number of speakers: 1298 (World Oral Literature Project) Code: tew Code Standard: ISO 639-3 Documentation: SIL Families: Kiowa-Tanoan (Kiowa Tanoan) Parent Subgroup: Tewa (tewa) Brief Description: "Tewa is a Kiowa-Tanoan language spoken in distinct local varieties at seven Pueblos in northern New Mexico and Arizona. These include Santa Clara, San Juan, San Ildefonso, Nambe, Tesuque, and Pojoaque in New Mesico, and in Arizona the village of Hano on the First Mesa at Hopi. There are approximately 1,200 speakers of Tewa in the New Mexico Pueblos out of a total enrollment of approximately 4,500. There are about 300 additional speakers at Hano, where at least some children are acquiring the dialect historically called Tano. At San Juan, the largest of the New Mexico Tewa Pueblos, as few as 30 fully fluent speakers remain in a population of about 2,000; most adults are semi-speakers, and no children are acquiring Tewa." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 23

Endangerment Status

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UNESCO Status: Severely endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed