Western Keres

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Western Keres is a Keresan Puebloan language spoken by the Keres people of western New Mexico.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Western Keres canonical 8
Western Keresan 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Keresan language
Puebloan language
language
country United States
ethnicity Keres Pueblo people
family Keresan
hasAlternativeName Western Keresan
Western Keresan language
hasDialect Acoma Keres
Cochiti Keres
linked to: Laguna Pueblo

Laguna Keres
Santa Ana Keres
linked to: Acoma Keres

Santo Domingo Keres
Zia Keres
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNumberOfSpeakers several thousand (approximate)
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
hasTypologicalFeature postpositions rather than prepositions
rich verb morphology
hasWordOrder SOV
isDistinctFrom Eastern Keres
isEndangered true
isNot Indo-European language
Uto-Aztecan language
ISO639-3 kjq
isPartOf Pueblo languages
isSpokenIn New Mexico
languageFamily Keresan languages
languageStatus threatened
region western New Mexico
spokenBy Keres people
subclassOf Keres language
subjectOf language revitalization efforts
usedFor daily communication in some Keres communities
oral storytelling
traditional ceremonies
usedIn Acoma Pueblo
Cochiti Pueblo
Laguna Pueblo
Santa Ana Pueblo
Santo Domingo Pueblo
Zia Pueblo
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Puebloan languages includes Western Keres
Keresan languages hasPart Western Keres
Laguna Pueblo language Western Keres
Acoma Keres isPartOf Western Keres
Acoma Keres languageFamilySubgroup Western Keresan
linked to: Western Keres
Eastern Keres distinctFrom Western Keres
Keres hasDialect Western Keres
Keresan languageFamilyHasBranch Western Keres
Keres people traditionalLanguage Western Keres