Picuris (also Picurís) is a language of the Northern Tiwa branch of Tanoan spoken in Picuris Pueblo, New Mexico. Genealogical relations Picuris is partially mutually intelligible with Taos dialect, spoken at Taos Pueblo. It is slightly more distantly related to Southern Tiwa (spoken at Isleta Pueblo and Sandia Pueblo). Phonology {|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |- ! colspan="2" rowspan="2" | ! rowspan="2" | Bilabial ! colspan="2" | Dental ! rowspan="2" | Alveolar ! rowspan="2" | Palatal ! colspan="2" | Velar ! rowspan="2" | Glottal |-class=small ! ! central ! lateral !central !labial |- ! rowspan="4" | Stop ! voiced | | | | | | | | |- ! voiceless | | | | | | | | |- !aspirated | | | | | | | | |- !ejective | | | | | | |() | |- ! colspan="2" | Fricative | | | | | | | | |- ! colspan="2" | Nasal | | | | | | | | |- ! colspan="2" |Approximant | | | | | | | | |- ! colspan="2" |Flap | | | | | | | | |} The consonants are only found in recent Spanish loanwords. G. Trager (1942, 1943) analyzed Picuris as also having aspirated stops , ejective stops , and labialized . These are considered by F. Trager (1971) to be sequences of , , and . Velar has strong frication. Stops are unaspirated while may be slightly aspirated. The affricate freely varies with a more forward articulation : for example, F. Trager recorded the word "witch" with an initial but the related word "witch chief" with initial . The sequence is only found in a single word . Alveolar has an assimilated velar variant when it precedes labio-velar . Nasal in a low-toned syllable is partially devoiced and denasalized before a glottal stop , as in "chokecherry" which is phonetically . Fricative freely varies between a lateral fricative and a central-lateral fricative sequence Lateral is palatalized before the high front vowel . Only the sonorants can occur in syllable coda position. Vowels Picuris has 6 vowels. Picuris also has nasalized counterparts for each vowel. {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |+ Oral Vowels ! ! Front ! Back |- ! High | | |- ! Upper Mid | | |- ! Lower Mid | | |- ! Low | colspan="2" | |} Picuris has three degrees of stress: primary,