| Piro | |
|---|---|
| Native to | United States |
| Region | New Mexico |
| Ethnicity | Piro |
| Extinct | 1900s[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pie |
pie | |
| Glottolog | piro1248 |
| Linguasphere | 64-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]
- ^ Piro at MultiTree on the Linguist List
- ^ a b Cite error: The named reference
Harringtonwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Newman, Stanley (1954) "American Indian Linguistics in the Southwest" American Anthropologist New Series, 56(4): pp. 626-634, 631
- ^ Leap, William L. (1971) "Who Were the Piro?" Anthropological Linguistics 13: pp. 321-330