Shawnee language

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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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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 ⓘ

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

Fox language → closelyRelatedTo → Shawnee language ⓘ
Algic languages → includes → Shawnee language ⓘ
Algonquian languages → includesLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ
Shawnee → traditionalLanguage → Shawnee language ⓘ