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Ta·noan (tä′nō ən)

noun

a family of North American Indian languages including those of the Kiowas and of a number of Pueblo villages in New Mexico and Arizona

Etymology: coined (1891) by J. W. Powell < Sp Tano, Tano or Tewa Indian < Tewa tḥaánu

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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