Hopi
[aka Tusayan, Moki, Moqui]Classification: Uto-Aztecan
·threatened
- PLACES
- Arizona
- LOCATION DESCRIPTION
Four dialects are usually distinguished: (1) the First Mesa villages of Walpi and Sichomovi (the language of a third First Mesa village, Hano, is Tewa) and the town of Polacca; (2) the Second Mesa village of Shipaulovi; (3) the Second Mesa village of Mishongnovi (also called Toreva); and (4) the Third Mesa villages of Oraibi, Hotevilla, Bacabi, and New Oraibi, as well as the settlement of Moencopi 40 miles to the west.