Arikara language
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The Arikara language is a critically endangered Caddoan language traditionally spoken by the Arikara people of the Northern Plains in the United States.
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Caddoan language
ⓘ
Native American language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ |
| alternativeName |
Arikaree language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sahnish language NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedReservation | Fort Berthold Indian Reservation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedTribalNation | Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| belongsToMacroArea | North America NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Pawnee language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Skiri Pawnee dialect ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| culturalRole | key marker of Arikara identity ⓘ |
| documentedBy |
linguist Douglas R. Parks
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
linguist Robert L. Rankin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Arikara people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGlottocode | arik1264 ⓘ |
| hasISO6393Code | ari ⓘ |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
ⓘ
glottalized consonants ⓘ |
| hasResourceType |
dictionary
ⓘ
grammar description ⓘ text collections ⓘ |
| historicalTerritory |
Great Plains
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Missouri River region NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
contact with English
ⓘ
contact with neighboring Plains languages ⓘ |
| isPartOf | Caddoan language family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageFamily | Caddoan languages ⓘ |
| morphology | verb-centered morphology ⓘ |
| numberOfSpeakers | very few first-language speakers ⓘ |
| region | Northern Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| revitalizationEffort |
documentation projects by linguists
ⓘ
language classes on Fort Berthold Reservation ⓘ |
| spokenBy | Arikara people NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| status | critically endangered ⓘ |
| subfamily | Northern Caddoan languages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timeDepth | spoken for many centuries before European contact ⓘ |
| traditionalRegion |
Nebraska
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
North Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ South Dakota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| transmission | largely interrupted intergenerational transmission ⓘ |
| typology | polysynthetic language ⓘ |
| UNESCOStatus | critically endangered ⓘ |
| usedIn |
oral storytelling
ⓘ
songs ⓘ traditional ceremonies ⓘ |
| wordOrder | relatively free word order ⓘ |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
ⓘ
surface form:
Latin script
|
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.