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The Tiwa or Tigua are a group of related Tanoan Puebloans in New Mexico.They traditionally speak a Tiwa language (although some speakers have switched to Spanish and/or English), and are divided into the two Northern Tiwa groups, in Taos and Picuris, and the Southern Tiwa in Isleta and Sandia, around what is now Albuquerque, and in Ysleta del Sur near El Paso, Texas.
Tiwa (/ ˈ t iː w ə / TEE-wə) [2] (Spanish Tigua, also E-nagh-magh [3]) is a group of two, possibly three, related Tanoan languages spoken by the Tiwa Pueblo, and possibly Piro Pueblo, in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
The Tiwa people (Also known as Lalung) [2] is a Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group primarily inhabiting the Northeast Indian states of Assam, Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Nagaland, and some parts of neighbouring Bangladesh and Myanmar. [3] A striking peculiarity of the Tiwa is their division into two sub-groups, Hills Tiwa and Plains Tiwa ...
The Pueblo peoples, or Puebloans, are Native Americans in the Southwestern United States who share common agricultural, material, and religious practices. Among the currently inhabited Pueblos , Taos , San Ildefonso , Acoma , Zuni , and Hopi are some of the most commonly known.
Southern Tiwa had three dialectal variants. Sandía; Isleta; Ysleta del Sur (Tigua) Trager reported that Sandía and Isleta were very similar and mutually intelligible.. In August 2015, it was announced that the Tiwa language would be taught to children at Isleta Elementary School in Pueblo of Isleta, as a part of the school's transfer from federal to tribal control.
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Tiwa and Tigua may refer to: Tiwa Puebloans, an ethnic group of New Mexico, US; Tiwa (Lalung), an ethnic group of north-eastern India; Tiwa language (India), a Sino ...
Dr. UV Jose who has a PhD in linguistics, has been associated with Umswai Valley, the Tiwa tribe and the Tiwa language for more than 10 years. His analysis of Tiwa is aided by his knowledge of related languages like Garo, Rabha and Boro, and that of Khasi, Karbi, Assamese and Hindi, with which Tiwa has had, and continues to have much contact. [3]