Hidatsa language

E291021

The Hidatsa language is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Hidatsa people of the Northern Plains, closely related to Crow and part of the Siouan language family.

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All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Hidatsa language canonical 3
Apsáalooke language 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Siouan language
endangered language
alternateName Hiraacá language
associatedTribe Three Affiliated Tribes
basicWordOrder SOV
belongsTo Crow–Hidatsa branch
surface form: Missouri River Siouan subgroup
closelyRelatedTo Crow language
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRole key marker of Hidatsa identity
documentedBy linguists of the 19th and 20th centuries
endangermentStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Hidatsa people
surface form: Hidatsa
glottocode hida1246
hasAlignment nominative–accusative alignment
hasCaseMarking postpositional case marking
hasEducationalUse heritage language instruction
hasFeature gender-neutral pronouns
noun incorporation
postpositions
rich verbal morphology
hasPart Hidatsa nominal system
Hidatsa verb system
ISO639-3Code hid
languageBranch Western Siouan
languageFamily Siouan languages
lexicalSimilarityWith Crow language
morphologicalType agglutinative language
numberOfSpeakersEstimate fewer than 100 speakers
phonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasalized vowels
tone or pitch accent
region North Dakota
Great Plains
surface form: Northern Plains
revitalizationEffort community language programs
documentation projects
language classes in local schools
spokenBy Hidatsa people
statusInCommunity primarily spoken by elders
subfamily Otoe
surface form: Missouri River Siouan
traditionalTerritory Missouri River Breaks region
surface form: Upper Missouri River region
usedFor oral storytelling
songs
traditional ceremonies
usedIn Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (4)

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

Siouan languages majorLanguage Hidatsa language
Crow language closelyRelatedTo Hidatsa language
Crow language hasAlternativeName Hidatsa language
this entity surface form: Apsáalooke language
Hidatsa people language Hidatsa language