- Keresan languages
Infobox Language family
name=Keresan
region=New Mexico
familycolor=American
family=Keres
child1=East Keres
child2=West Keres
map_caption=Pre-contact distribution of Keresan languagesKeresan (pronEng|kəˈriːsən), also Keres (IPA|/ˈkɛrəs/), is a group of seven related
lect s spoken byPueblo people s inNew Mexico , U.S.A.. Each is mutually intelligible with its closest neighbors. There is significant diversity between the Western and Eastern groups.Family division
*
Eastern dialects : total of 4,580 speakers (1990 census)
**Cochiti Pueblo : 384 speakers (1990 census)
** San Felipe-Santo Domingo:San Felipe Pueblo : 1,560 speakers (1990 census),Santo Domingo Pueblo : 1,880 speakers (1990 census)
** Zia-Santa
**Zia Pueblo : 463 speakers (1990 census),Santa Ana Pueblo : 229 speakers (1990 census)
*Western dialects : total of 3,391 speakers (1990 census)
**Acoma Pueblo : 1,696 speakers (1980 census)
**Laguna Pueblo : 1,695 speakers (1990 census)Genetic relationships
Keres is a language isolate. Sapir grouped it together with a Hokan-Siouan stock. Swadesh suggested a connection with Wichita. Greenberg grouped Keres with Siouan, Yuchi, Caddoan, and Iroquoian families into a super-stock called Keresiouan. All of these proposals have been rejected by specialists.
External links
* [http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/~uhdoc/keres/keres.html Chochiti Keres: About Me and My Language: The politics of saving a vanishing language: The politics of writing]
*ethnologue|code=kee|label=Eastern Keres
*ethnologue|code=kjq|label=Western KeresBibliography
* Campbell, Lyle. (1997). "American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America". New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
* Mithun, Marianne. (1999). "The languages of Native North America". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.