Chiwere language

E320281

The Chiwere language is a nearly extinct Siouan language historically spoken by the Otoe-Missouria and Iowa (Ioway) tribes of the central United States.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chiwere language canonical 3

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Siouan language
endangered language
alternativeName Chiwere
Iowa-Otoe-Missouria language
surface form: Otoe-Missouria-Iowa language
closelyRelatedTo Ho-Chunk language
Kansa language
Omaha–Ponca language
surface form: Omaha-Ponca language

Osage language
documentedIn word lists collected by early American linguists and missionaries
glottocode iowa1245
hasGrammaticalFeature derivational verb morphology
number marking on verbs
person marking on verbs
use of postpositions rather than prepositions
hasLinguisticFeature active–stative alignment (in some analyses)
head-marking
polysynthetic morphology
verb-heavy morphology
hasLinguisticRelation part of the wider Siouan–Catawban family (in some classifications)
hasPart Iowa dialect
Otoe dialect
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasal vowels
rich consonant system including stops, fricatives, and nasals
hasRevitalizationEffort community language classes
dictionary compilation
documentation projects
hasWordOrder flexible word order
historicallySpokenBy Iowa (Ioway) tribe
surface form: Iowa tribe

Ioway people
surface form: Ioway tribe

Otoe–Missouria Tribe of Indians
surface form: Otoe-Missouria tribe
historicalRegion Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Central United States
surface form: central United States
ISO639-3Code iow
languageFamily Siouan languages
region Great Plains
Midwestern United States
status nearly extinct
subfamily Otoe
surface form: Missouri River Siouan
typicalBasicWordOrder SOV
usedByEthnicGroup Iowa people
Missouria
surface form: Missouria people

Otoe people
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

Referenced by (3)

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

Ho-Chunk language relatedLanguage Chiwere language
Oto speaksLanguageSubfamily Chiwere language
Otoe language Chiwere language