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Keres (/ ˈ k eɪ r eɪ s /), [2] also Keresan (/ ˈ k ɛ r ə s ən /), is a Native American language, spoken by the Keres Pueblo people in New Mexico.Depending on the analysis, Keres is considered a small language family or a language isolate with several dialects.
They speak English, Keresan languages, and in one pueblo Keresan Sign Language. The seven Keres pueblos are: Cochiti Pueblo or Kotyit ("Stone Kiva"); Cochiti Pueblo people: Kotyitiemeh ("People of the North Mountains, i.e. Cochiti people") San Felipe Pueblo or Katishtya (People down by the river ”The place where the White Shells are”)
Keresan language; Hopi language; Navajo language; The languages belong to five different families: Zuni, Tanoan, Keresan, Uto-Aztecan (Hopi), and Athabaskan (Navajo, from the Apachean subfamily). Zuni is a language isolate. Navajo is only a marginal member of the Sprachbund and does not share all its linguistic features.
Keresan: family to which Western and Eastern Keres belong, considered by some a language isolate consisting of a dialect continuum spoken at the pueblos of Acoma, Laguna, Santa Ana, Zia, Cochiti, Kewa, and San Felipe. Kiowa-Tanoan: stock to which the Tanoan (or Puebloan) branch belongs, consisting of three separate sub-branches:
Location of the Pueblo of Zia. The Zia / ˈ z iː ə / or Tsʾíiyʾamʾé are an indigenous nation centered at Zia Pueblo (Tsi'ya), a Native American reservation in the U.S. state of New Mexico.
The population of the pueblo is composed of Native Americans who speak Keres, an eastern dialect of the Keresan languages.Like several other Pueblo peoples, they have a matrilineal kinship system, [7] in which children are considered born into the mother's family and clan, and inheritance and property pass through the maternal line.
Recovery/Transformation: The Keresan prayer for sunrise (Keres is a Native American language, spoken by the Keres Pueblo people in New Mexico) Departure: Corn Woman scolds Reed Woman for being lazy, and she departs; Drought begins; Departure and Recovery: Pa'caya'nyi introduces Ck'o'yo medicine, and the People forget their obligation to Nau'ts ...
The Kiowa–Tanoan, Keresan, and Zuni languages. In L. Campbell ... Studies in southwestern ethnolinguistics: Meaning and history in the languages of the ...