Káⁿza

E410079

Káⁿza is the endonym for the Kansa (Kaw) language, a Siouan language traditionally spoken by the Kansa people of the central United States.

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Label Occurrences
Káⁿza canonical 1

Statements (32)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American language
Siouan language
language
alternateName Kansa
Kaw
associatedEthnicity Kaw people
surface form: Kansa people
closelyRelatedTo Omaha–Ponca language
surface form: Omaha-Ponca language

Osage language
Quapaw language
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalRole ceremonial language of the Kansa people
marker of Kansa identity
endonymFor Kansa language
Kaw language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
nasalized vowels
rich consonant system
ISO639-3 ksk
languageFamily Siouan languages
surface form: Siouan
linguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
morphologyType agglutinative language
region North America
revitalization language revitalization efforts
spokenBy Kaw people
surface form: Kansa people

Kaw Nation
status endangered language
subfamily Dhegiha Siouan peoples
surface form: Dhegihan Siouan
traditionalRegion Kansas
Oklahoma
central United States
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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