Shawnee language

E62791

Algonquian language Native American language endangered language

The Shawnee language is a Native American language traditionally spoken by the Shawnee people, belonging to the Central Algonquian branch and now considered endangered.

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All labels observed (1)

Label	Occurrences
Shawnee language canonical	21

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Algonquian language ⓘ Native American language ⓘ endangered language ⓘ
branchOf	Algic languages ⓘ surface form: Algic language family
closelyRelatedTo	Fox language ⓘ Kickapoo language ⓘ Sauk language ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ
endangermentCause	English language dominance ⓘ historical assimilation policies ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Shawnee Nation ⓘ surface form: Shawnee people
family	Algonquian languages ⓘ
hasDialects	Shawnee ⓘ surface form: Absentee Shawnee Shawnee Nation ⓘ surface form: Eastern Shawnee Loyal Shawnee ⓘ
hasFeature	animate–inanimate gender system ⓘ complex verb inflection ⓘ obviative marking ⓘ person marking on verbs ⓘ prefixes and suffixes ⓘ verb-based morphology ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	contrastive vowel length ⓘ nasal vowels ⓘ rich consonant inventory ⓘ
hasWordOrder	default VOS word order ⓘ flexible word order ⓘ
isSpokenBy	Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma ⓘ Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma ⓘ Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma ⓘ surface form: Shawnee Tribe
languageCodeISO639-3	sjw ⓘ
languageStatus	severely endangered ⓘ
linguisticTypology	head-marking language ⓘ polysynthetic language ⓘ
morphology	agglutinative morphology ⓘ
region	Kansas ⓘ Missouri ⓘ Ohio Valley region ⓘ surface form: Ohio Valley Oklahoma ⓘ Pennsylvania ⓘ
revitalizationEffort	dictionary compilation ⓘ documentation projects ⓘ language classes in tribal communities ⓘ orthography standardization ⓘ
subfamily	Algonquian languages ⓘ surface form: Central Algonquian languages
usedIn	oral storytelling traditions ⓘ songs and chants ⓘ traditional Shawnee ceremonies ⓘ
writingSystem	Latin script ⓘ

Referenced by (21)

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

Algonquian languages → includesLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ

Algic languages → includes → Shawnee language ⓘ

Fox language → closelyRelatedTo → Shawnee language ⓘ

Shawnee → traditionalLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ

Shawnee Nation → language → Shawnee language ⓘ

Shawnee leader Waapakoneta (anglicized form) → language → Shawnee language ⓘ

subject surface form: Waapakoneta

Black Hoof → nativeLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ

Myaamia → closelyRelatedTo → Shawnee language ⓘ

Miami-Illinois → closelyRelatedTo → Shawnee language ⓘ

Loyal Shawnee → traditionalLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ

Loyal Shawnee → usesLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ

Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians of Oklahoma → traditionalLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ

Kispoko → hasLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ

Šaawanwa → ethnonymLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ

Šaawanwa → traditionalLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ

Mekoche → language → Shawnee language ⓘ

Fox–Sauk–Kickapoo branch → hasCloseRelationshipWith → Shawnee language ⓘ

Eastern Algonquian languages → hasMember → Shawnee language ⓘ

Hathawekela → language → Shawnee language ⓘ

Shawnee warriors → language → Shawnee language ⓘ

Central Algonquian → hasMember → Shawnee language ⓘ