Keresan

Keresan
Of or pertaining to the Keres Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.
2. noun
a) Any member of the Keres Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.
b) Any of the seven closely related languages of the Keres Pueblo peoples of New Mexico.

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  • Keresan languages — Infobox Language family name=Keresan region=New Mexico familycolor=American family=Keres child1=East Keres child2=West Keres map caption=Pre contact distribution of Keresan languagesKeresan (pronEng|kəˈriːsən), also Keres (IPA|/ˈkɛrəs/), is a… …   Wikipedia

  • Keresan — noun Date: 1891 1. a family of American Indian languages of which the Keres dialects comprise the only member 2. a member of any of the seven Keres speaking Pueblo Indian communities of central New Mexico …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • Keresan — /ker euh seuhn/, n. a family of languages spoken by Pueblo tribes of the Rio Grande valley and neighboring areas. * * * …   Universalium

  • keresan — ker·e·san …   English syllables

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  • Pueblo linguistic area — The Pueblo linguistic area (or Pueblo Sprachbund, Pueblo convergence area) is a Sprachbund (group of languages with similarities due to language contact) consisting of the language spoken in and near North American Pueblo locations. Language… …   Wikipedia

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  • Indigenous languages of the Americas — Yucatec Maya writing in the Dresden Codex, ca. 11–12th century, Chichen Itza Indigenous languages of the Americas are spoken by indigenous peoples from Alaska and Greenland to the southern tip of South America, encompassing the land masses which… …   Wikipedia

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