Biloxi language

E280868

The Biloxi language is an extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi people of the Gulf Coast region of the United States.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Biloxi language canonical 4

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Siouan language
extinct language
associatedPeople Biloxi people
surface form: Biloxi tribe
associatedWith Louisiana
Mississippi River
surface form: Mississippi

Texas
closelyRelatedTo Ofo language
Tutelo language
country United States of America
surface form: United States
documentation grammatical notes
texts
wordlists
documentedBy James Owen Dorsey
John R. Swanton
endonym Tanêksąyaa ade
ethnicity Biloxi people
family Siouan languages
surface form: Siouan language family
glottocode bilo1245
hasAlternateName Biloxi-Tunica (obsolete grouping)
hasGrammaticalFeature noun incorporation
obviation-like distinctions
verbal affixes for number
verbal affixes for person
hasLinguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
hasMorphology agglutinative morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasal vowels
glottal stop
voiceless stops
hasReconstruction partially reconstructed from field notes
hasWordOrder SOV
iso639-3 bll
languageBranch Southeastern Siouan
languageFamily Siouan languages
surface form: Siouan
lastSpeakersDied early 20th century
linguisticClassification Siouan languages
surface form: Western Siouan
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Crow language
Dakota language
preservationEfforts archival recordings and manuscripts
region Gulf Coast of the United States
surface form: Gulf Coast region of the United States
spokenBy Biloxi people
status extinct
subfamily Eastern Siouan peoples
surface form: Ohio Valley Siouan
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Siouan languages majorLanguage Biloxi language
Biloxi people language Biloxi language
Tunica-Biloxi languageHistoricallySpoken Biloxi language
Tutelo language relatedTo Biloxi language