Kiowa Language

Kiowa is a Kiowa-Tanoan language spoken by the Kiowa.

Sounds

Consonants

The 21 consonants of Kiowa:
colspan="2" |   align="center" | Labial align="center" | Dental align="center" | Alveolar align="center" | Palatal align="center" | Velar align="center" | Glottal
rowspan="4" | Stop voiced align="center" | align="center" |     align="center" |  
voiceless align="center" | align="center" |     align="center" |  
aspirated align="center" | align="center" |     align="center" |  
ejective align="center" | align="center" |     align="center" | align="center" |
rowspan="2" | Affricate voiceless     align="center" |      
ejective     align="center" |      
Nasal   align="center" | align="center" |        
rowspan="2" | Fricative voiced     align="center" |      
voiceless     align="center" |     align="center" |
rowspan="2" | Approximant central align="center" |     align="center" |    
lateral   align="center" |        

Vowels

The 24 vowels of Kiowa:
  align="center" colspan="4" | Front   align="center" colspan="4" | Back
  align="center" colspan="2" | oral align="center" colspan="2" | nasal   align="center" colspan="2" | oral align="center" colspan="2" | nasal
  align="center" | short align="center" | long align="center" | short align="center" | long   align="center" | short align="center" | long align="center" | short align="center" | long
High align="center" | align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |   align="center" | align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |
Mid align="center" | align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |   align="center" | align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |
Low align="center" | align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |   align="center" | align="center" | align="center" | align="center" |
Kiowa has phonemic oral, nasal, short, and long vowels. Kiowa also has four diphthongs of the form vowel + .
  align="center" | Front   align="center" | Back
High     align="center" |
Mid     align="center" |
Low align="center" |   align="center" |

Grammar

Number

Inverse number.

Bibliography

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  • Hale, Kenneth. (1962). Jemez and Kiowa correspondences in reference to Kiowa-Tanoan. International Journal of American Linguistics, 28, 1-5.
  • Harrington, John P. (1947). Three Kiowa texts. International Journal of American Linguistics, 12, 237-242.
  • Hickerson, Nancy P. (1985). Some Kiowa terms for currency and financial transactions. International Journal of American Linguistics, 51, 446-449.
  • McKenzie, Parker; & Harrington, John P. (1948). Popular account of the Kiowa Indian language. Sante Fe: University of New Mexico Press.
  • Merrill, William; Hansson, Marian; Greene, Candace; & Reuss, Frederick. (1997). A guide to the Kiowa collections at the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 40.
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  • Merrifield, William R. (1959). Classification of Kiowa nouns. International Journal of American Linguistics, 25, 269-271.
  • Miller, Wick R. (1959). A note on Kiowa linguistic affiliations. American Anthropologist, 61, 102-105.
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