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Piro Pueblo language

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Native to
  
United States

Ethnicity
  
Piro

Language family
  
Tanoan Tiwa Piro

Region
  
New Mexico

Extinct
  
by 1900

ISO 639-3
  
pie

Piro is a poorly attested, extinct Tanoan language once spoken in the more than twenty Piro Pueblos near Socorro, New Mexico. It has generally been classified as one of the Tiwa languages, though Leap (1971) contested that Piro is a Tanoan language at all.

References

Piro Pueblo language Wikipedia