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Taos

dialect of the Northern Tiwa language is spoken in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico
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Summary

Taos is a language[1]. Taos ranks in the top 5% of language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (181 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: modern language[4]
  • Subclass of: Tiwa[5]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Taos language[6]
  • Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 800[7]
  • UNESCO language status: 3 definitely endangered[8]
  • Indigenous to: New Mexico[9]
  • Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TWF[10]
  • Ethnologue language status: 7 Shifting[11]

Why It Matters

Taos is known by 10 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

New Mexico United States

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . scriptsource.org. Retrieved . scriptsource.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . iso639-3.sil.org. iso639-3.sil.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . unesco.org. unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Red Book of Endangered Languages. Retrieved . unesco.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Language. op.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Ethnologue. Retrieved . ethnologue.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Mcampany-emco · 2026-10-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Number of speakers, writers, or signers → {'amount': '+800'}
    Unesco language status → 3 definitely endangered
    Indigenous to → New Mexico
    Iso 639-3 code → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Iso 639-3 code: twf, Moving to Q141680942"
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