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Thursday, January 24, 2008

Now You, Too, Can Count to Four in Tewa!

"Vocabulary Words in the Kiowa-Tanoan Language Family"

These are languages spoken in the Grand Canyon-Smoky Hills-Ozark Plateau-Lake Tawakoni area.

There's a list of ten words: First in English (and French), then in Kiowa, and in Tewa.

The site that this page is a part of looks like a serious attempt to create translation dictionaries for a selection of American Indian languages. They're trying to be inoffensive, too, using the terms "Amerindian," "Native American," and "American Indian."

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