Kickapoo language

E63149

Kickapoo language is an endangered Central Algonquian language traditionally spoken by the Kickapoo people in parts of the United States and Mexico.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf Central Algonquian language
Native American language
endangered language
indigenous language of North America
belongsToBranch Fox–Sauk–Kickapoo branch
closelyRelatedTo Fox language
Meskwaki language
Sauk language
country Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
endangermentStatus endangered
ethnicGroup Kickapoo
family Algonquian languages
glottocode kick1243
hasAlternativeName Kikapoo
Kikapú
hasDialect Mexican Kickapoo
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
surface form: Oklahoma Kickapoo

Kickapoo Reservation in Texas
surface form: Texas Kickapoo
hasLinguisticDocumentation dictionaries
grammars
text collections
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
ISO639-3 kic
languageFamily Algic
languageRevitalization community-based programs
primaryWordOrder SOV
region North America
spokenIn Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
statusInMexico recognized indigenous language
statusInUnitedStates heritage language
subfamily Algonquian languages
surface form: Central Algonquian languages
traditionalSpeakers Kickapoo people
transmission primarily oral
typologicalFeature complex verb morphology
head-marking
polysynthetic morphology
usedBy Coahuila Kickapoo community
Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas
Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma
usedIn daily communication in some communities
oral storytelling
traditional ceremonies
wordOrder flexible
writingSystem Latin script

Referenced by (6)

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

Miami-Illinois language closelyRelatedTo Kickapoo language
Sac and Fox language closelyRelatedTo Kickapoo language
Sauk language closelyRelatedTo Kickapoo language
Shawnee language closelyRelatedTo Kickapoo language
Algonquian languages includesLanguage Kickapoo language
Kickapoo language Kickapoo language