Saponi language

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The Saponi language is an extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Saponi people of the southeastern United States, closely related to other Eastern Siouan languages.

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Label Occurrences
Saponi language canonical 2

Statements (34)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Siouan language
extinct language
associatedTribe Saponi tribe NERFINISHED
Sappony (Haliwa-Saponi) descendants
branchOf Eastern Siouan branch
classificationStatus well-attested Eastern Siouan language
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalAssociation Saponi traditional culture
documentationLevel poorly documented
endonymStatus original name uncertain
ethnicity Saponi people NERFINISHED
extinctionCause language shift to English
geneticRelation Catawba language NERFINISHED
Monacan language NERFINISHED
Occaneechi language NERFINISHED
Tutelo language NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod colonial-era southeastern United States
pre-colonial North America
isoStatus no ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Siouan languages NERFINISHED
languageFamilyHigher Siouan–Catawban NERFINISHED
languageShiftTo English
neighboring colonial languages
linguisticArea Eastern Woodlands NERFINISHED
linguisticRelationType closely related to other Eastern Siouan languages
macroArea North America NERFINISHED
region southeastern United States
spokenBy Saponi people NERFINISHED
status extinct
subfamily Eastern Siouan languages NERFINISHED
typologicalFeature likely polysynthetic (inferred from Siouan relatives)
wordOrder likely SOV (inferred from Siouan relatives)
writingSystem no indigenous writing system

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Catawba language relatedTo Saponi language
Tutelo language relatedTo Saponi language