Pirois a poorly attested, extinctTanoan languageonce spoken in the more than twentyPiro PueblosnearSocorro, New Mexico.[2]It has generally been classified as one of theTiwa languages,[3]though Leap (1971) contested whether or not Piro is truly a Tanoan language at all.[4]The last known speaker, an elderly woman, was interviewed by Mooney in 1897, and by 1909 all Piro members hadMexican Spanishas their native language.[2]
| Piro | |
|---|---|
| Native to | United States |
| Region | New Mexico |
| Ethnicity | Piro |
| Extinct | 1900s[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | pie |
pie | |
| Glottolog | piro1248 |
| Linguasphere | 64-CAA-c |
Corpus
editThe corpus of Piro is limited to place names, two vocabularies and an 1860 translation of the Lord's Prayer using Spanish orthography:[2][5]
Quitatác nasaul e yapolhua tol húy quiamgiana mi quiamnarinú Jaquié mu gilley nasamagui hikiey quiamsamaé, mukiataxám, hikiey, hiquiquiamo quia inaé, huskilley nafoleguey, gimoréy, y apol y ahuleý, quialiey, nasan e pomo llekeý, quiale mahimnague yo sé mahi kaná rrohoý, se teman quiennatehui mu killey, nani, emolley quinaroy zetasi, na san quianatehueý pemcihipompo y, qui solakuey quifollohipuca. Kuey maihua atellan, folliquitey. Amen.[6]
The Piro-origin place names listed by Bandelier are Abo, Arti-puy, Genobey, Pataotry, Pil-abó, Qual-a-cú, Quelotetrey, Tabirá (Gran Quivira), Ten-abó, Tey-pam-á, Trenaquel and Zen-ecú (Senecú).[2]
Vocabulary
editAs Piro was morphologicallyagglutinative,words were built from prefixes, stems and suffixes. For example,quen-lo-a-tu-ya-é( "mosquito" ) isglossedas "the insect that bites".
Piro was reportedlymutually intelligiblewithIsletawith many shared words and case stems. Of the 180 words in Bartlett's Piro vocabulary, 87% were identical or nearly so to their corresponding stems in Southern Tiwa. The vocabulary created by Harrington also contains severalloanwordsfrom Spanish, such aspipa-hemfor "pipe" (from Spanishpipa).[2]
References
edit- ^PiroatMultiTreeonthe Linguist List
- ^abcdeHarrington, John P. (12 October 1909)."Notes on the Piro Language".American Anthropologist.11(4): 563–594.doi:10.1525/aa.1909.11.4.02a00030.
- ^Newman, Stanley (1954) "American Indian Linguistics in the Southwest"American AnthropologistNew Series, 56(4): pp. 626-634, 631
- ^Leap, William L. (1971) "Who Were the Piro?"Anthropological Linguistics13: pp. 321-330
- ^Bartlett, John Russell (9 July 1909)."The Language of the Piro".American Anthropologist.11(3): 426–433.doi:10.1525/aa.1909.11.3.02a00060.Retrieved3 July2022.
- ^Colección Polidiómica Mexicana que contiene la Oracion Dominical.Mexico. 1860. p. 36.
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