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Name: Tiwa, Southern Alternate Names: Southern Tiwa; Isleta; Tiwa; Tiwa (Southern); Isleta-Sandia Spoken in: USA Code: tix Code Authority: ISO 639-3 Code Standard: SIL Families: Kiowa-Tanoan (Kiowa Tanoan) Parent Subgroup: Tiwa (tiwa) Child Dialects: Sandia; Isleta-Sandia (tix-san) Isleta; Isleta Pueblo; Isleta-Sandia (tix-isl) Brief Description: "Southern Tiwa is a Kiowa-Tanoan language spoken by members of the Pueblos of Sandia and Isleta, on the Rio Grande near Albuquerque, New Mexico. At Sandia Pueblo, 15 miles north of Albuquerque, only middle-aged and elderly people are fully fluent, although some younger people use the language and at least a few children still acquire it. In all there are about 100 speakers in a total population of about 500. At Isleta Pueblo, 15 miles south of Albuquerque, there are approximately 1,500 speakers in a membership of about 4,000." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 23