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TANOAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of North American Indian language spoken in southwestern United States
Synonyms:
Tanoan; Tanoan language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Tanoan" is a kind of...):
American-Indian language; American Indian; Amerind; Amerindian language; Indian (any of the languages spoken by Amerindians)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Tanoan"):
Kiowa (the Tanoan language spoken by the Kiowa)