1-800-969-6853; . Taos was first documented in the 1930s by George L. Trager, an American linguist from Yale University. Snap. Tanoan has long been recognized as a major family of Pueblo languages, consisting of Tiwa, Tewa, and Towa. The languages of the Tanoan family have three numbers - singular, dual, and plural - and exhibit an unusual system of marking number, called "inverse number" (or number toggling ). U The once-nomadic Kiowa people of the Plains are culturally quite distinct from the Tiwa, Tewa, and Towa pueblos, which obscured somewhat the linguistic connection between Tanoans and Kiowans. (1959). Kroskrity, Paul V. 1984. Toward a reconstruction of KiowaTanoan phonology. In fact, Translation Services USA is the only agency in the market which can fully translate Zuni to literally any language in the world! Part I is a thorough overview of the of the background of Kiowa-Tanoan language study. Dozier, Edward P. (1954). (1967).