Piro Pueblo language

Not to be confused with Piro languages or Piro language (Peru).
Piro
Native toUnited States
RegionNew Mexico
EthnicityPiro
Extinct1900s[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3pie
pie
Glottologpiro1248
Linguasphere64-CAA-c

Piro is a poorly attested, extinct Tanoan language once spoken in the more than twenty Piro Pueblos near Socorro, New Mexico.[2] It has generally been classified as one of the Tiwa languages,[3] though Leap (1971) contested whether or not Piro is truly a Tanoan language at all.[4] The last known speaker, an elderly woman, was interviewed by Mooney in 1897, and by 1909 all Piro members had Mexican Spanish as their native language.[2]

  1. ^ Piro at MultiTree on the Linguist List
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Harrington was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Newman, Stanley (1954) "American Indian Linguistics in the Southwest" American Anthropologist New Series, 56(4): pp. 626-634, 631
  4. ^ Leap, William L. (1971) "Who Were the Piro?" Anthropological Linguistics 13: pp. 321-330