TANOAN Definition & Meaning

Tanoan

[tah-noh-uhn]

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noun

an American Indian language family of which the three surviving languages are spoken in several pueblos, including Taos, in northern New Mexico near the Rio Grande.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Coined by J.W. Powell in 1891 as �ղ�ñ�ǲ��, based on American Spanish Tagno ( -an ); gn misinterpreted as equivalent to Spanish ñ, variant of Tano, ethnic name of Southern Tewa subgroup of Tanoans, from Southern Tewa ��ʰá·�Գ�

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He was at the intersection of Tanoan and Cypress NE when the vehicle struck him.

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If you have any connections at Albuquerque CC or Tanoan CC, consider using them.

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A house building people of the Tanoan Group, Rio Grande valley, N. M. Te-get-ha Taos Pueblo, N. M. One of the best examples of the terraced, five storied, pre-Columbian architecture, still inhabited.

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Among these arrivals were Tanoan warriors and their families, part of whom were ancestors of the present inhabitants of Hano.

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In fact, there is no Tusayan ruin which resembles it in ground plan, except Payüpki, a Tanoan town of much later construction.

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