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Keres, Eastern

A language of United States

ISO 639-3: kee

Population	4,580. 463 Zia, 229 Santa Ana, 1,560 San Felipe, 1,888 Santo Domingo, 384 Cochiti; US Census (2000) lists 11,210 as “Keres”. Ethnic population: 5,701 including 602 Zia, 374 Santa Ana, 1,789 San Felipe, 2,140 Santo Domingo, 796 Cochiti.
Region	North central New Mexico.
Language map	Southwestern United States of America
Alternate names	Eastern Keres Pueblo
Dialects	Zia, Santa Ana, San Felipe, Santo Domingo, Cochiti.
Classification	Keres
Language use	Vigorous in some pueblos; in others, younger people prefer English. All ages.
Language development	Literacy rate in L1: Below 1%. Literacy rate in L2: 75%–100%. Bible portions: 1933–1936.
Writing system	Latin script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

DAVIS, Irvine, author. 1960. Grammatical structure of Santa Ana Keresan.

DAVIS, Irvine, author. 1963. "Bibliography of Keresan linguistic sources."

DAVIS, Irvine, author. 1964. "The language of Santa Ana pueblo."

DAVIS, Irvine, author. 1966. Review of: Acoma grammar and texts, by Wick R. Miller.

DAVIS, Irvine, author. 1974. "Keresan-Caddoan comparisons."

DAVIS, Irvine; MILLER, Wick R., authors. 1963. "Proto-Keresan phonology."