ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

North America · ISO 639-3 tew · Glottocode tewa1260

Rio Grande Tewa

Rio Grande Tewa's reference point lies in North America. Glottolog lists it with shifting status and in the Kiowa-Tanoan family, while CLDR suggests Latin.

Language family
Kiowa-Tanoan
Likely script
Latin (Latn)
Source status
shifting
Macroarea
North America
Source country codes
US
Reference point
35.905, -106.124

Open research question

How can speaker situation, generational change, and local revitalisation aims for Rio Grande Tewa be documented without reading the reference point as a language area?

This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.

Scholarly boundary

The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.