Towa
Towa is a Kiowa-Tanoan language spoken in United States, by about 3,000 people. Glottolog rates it shifting.
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Jemez or Hemish (also Towa) is a Kiowa-Tanoan language spoken by the Jemez Pueblo people in New Mexico. It has no common written form, as tribal rules do not allow the language to be transcribed; linguists describing the language have used the Americanist phonetic notation with slight modifications.
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Words in Towa
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | ˀówa | |
| person | tE7E* | |
| name | hi* | |
| eye | se* | |
| ear | wotyo* | |
| nose | pose* | |
| tooth | kwo* | |
| tongue | i* | |
| hand | mote* | |
| blood | 3* | |
| bone | ho* | |
| skin | wEhE* | |
| knee | hob37yo* | |
| breast | kwo* | |
| liver | tE* | |
| water | pˀá | |
| fire | pE7E* | |
| sun | pe* | |
| star | woho* | |
| stone | kyo7o* | |
| mountain | pe* | |
| tree | noni* | |
| leaf | po* | |
| night | doh37E* | |
| dog | kyhE7n3* | |
| fish | po* | |
| louse | p373* | |
| one | p3* | |
| two | wi* | |
| I | ni* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
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Vocabulary
- Taos Northern TiwaKiowa-Tanoan10% alike
- Rio Grande TewaKiowa-Tanoan10% alike
- AniiAtlantic-Congo10% alike
- KovaiNuclear Trans New Guinea9% alike
- Southern TiwaKiowa-Tanoan9% alike
- NatüguAustronesian9% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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