Picuris | |
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Native to | United States |
Region | Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico |
Ethnicity | 230[1] |
Native speakers | 225 (2007)[2] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | twf (Northern Tiwa) |
Glottolog | picu1248 |
ELP | Picuris |
Linguasphere | 64-CAA-ab |
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Picuris is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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Picuris (also Picurís) is a language of the Northern Tiwa branch of Tanoan spoken in Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico.
Picuris is partially mutually intelligible with Taos dialect, spoken at Taos Pueblo.[3] It is slightly more distantly related to Southern Tiwa (spoken at Isleta Pueblo and Sandia Pueblo).
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Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
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central | lateral | central | labial | ||||||
Stop | voiced | (b) | (d) | (ɡ) | |||||
voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | kʷ | ʔ | |||
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | |||||||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | tʃʼ | kʼ | (kʼʷ) | ||||
Fricative | ɬ | s | x | xʷ | h | ||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||||
Approximant | w | l | j | ||||||
Flap | (ɾ) |
Picuris has 6 vowels. Picuris also has nasalized counterparts for each vowel.
Picuris has three degrees of stress: primary, secondary, and unstressed. Stress affects the phonetic length of syllable rimes (lengthening the vowel or the syllable-final sonorant consonant).
Additionally, there are three tones: high, mid, and low — the mid tone being the most frequent.
Two sentences with interlinear glosses:
ˌʔìˈʔīˌnẽ́
corn
ˌpāˈʔāˌnẽ́
pumpkins
ˌtāˈʔāˌnẽ́
beans
ʔã̄nnã̄ˈpīaˌtʃí
we.two.will.make
ˈmẽˌwíathā-ˌpʔīnˈwēlthā-ʔīˈkʔòˌthʌ̀
at.going.being-at.Picuris-we.good.dwell
ˌʔìˈʔīˌnẽ́ ˌpāˈʔāˌnẽ́ ˌtāˈʔāˌnẽ́ ʔã̄nnã̄ˈpīaˌtʃí ˈmẽˌwíathā-ˌpʔīnˈwēlthā-ʔīˈkʔòˌthʌ̀
corn pumpkins beans we.two.will.make at.going.being-at.Picuris-we.good.dwell
"Corn, pumpkins, beans, we live happily at Picuris by raising an abundant crop."
ˈʔẽ́
you
kãˈxwẽ́ˌkì
you.have.the.tail
ˈʔẽ́ kãˈxwẽ́ˌkì
you you.have.the.tail
"It's your turn."[7]
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