Acoma Keres

E421548

Acoma Keres is a Keresan language variety traditionally spoken by the Acoma Pueblo people of New Mexico.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Acoma Keres canonical 3
Acoma Keresan 1
Acoma Pueblo tribe 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Keresan language variety
Native American language
indigenous language of the United States
associatedReligion Pueblo traditional religion
associatedWith Acoma Pueblo reservation ONNED1
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalSignificance core marker of Acoma Pueblo identity
ethnicGroup Pueblo peoples
surface form: Acoma Pueblo people
hasAlternativeName Acoma Pueblo
surface form: Acoma

Acoma Keres
surface form: Acoma Keresan
hasBasicWordOrder SOV-dominant word order
hasDialect Acoma dialect of Western Keres
hasDomain kinship terminology
ritual and ceremonial vocabulary
traditional ecological knowledge
hasFeature complex aspect system
rich verbal morphology
switch-reference-like clause linking in Keresan family
hasLoanwordsFrom English
Spanish
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
glottalized consonants
isOralTraditionDominant true
isPartOf Western Keres
isThreatenedBy language shift to English
languageFamily Keresan languages
languageFamilyStatus language isolate family (Keresan)
languageFamilySubgroup Western Keres
surface form: Western Keresan
languageRevitalization community-based language programs at Acoma Pueblo
languageStatus endangered language
linguisticTypology head-marking language
macroArea North America
neighboringLanguage Laguna Keres
Navajo language
surface form: Navajo

Spanish (New Mexican Spanish)
Zuni people
surface form: Zuni
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Eastern Keres
region western New Mexico
surface form: Western New Mexico
spokenIn Acoma Pueblo
New Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
taughtIn tribal language programs at Acoma Pueblo schools
usedFor daily communication within Acoma community
oral tradition
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Acoma Pueblo language Acoma Keres
Acoma Pueblo tribalAffiliation Acoma Keres
this entity surface form: Acoma Pueblo tribe
Acoma Keres hasAlternativeName Acoma Keres
this entity surface form: Acoma Keresan
Sky City languageSpoken Acoma Keres