Sauk language
E93462
The Sauk language is an Algonquian Indigenous language of North America traditionally spoken by the Sauk (Sac) people, closely related to the Fox and Kickapoo languages and now critically endangered.
Aliases (3)
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Algonquian language
→
Indigenous language of North America → endangered language → |
| alsoKnownAs |
Sac and Fox language
→
Sac language → |
| basicWordOrder | flexible word order → |
| closelyRelatedTo |
Fox language
→
Kickapoo language → |
| currentStatus | spoken by few fluent elders → |
| endangermentStatus | critically endangered → |
| ethnicGroup |
Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma
→
surface form: "Sac and Fox Nation"
Sauk people → |
| glottocode | sauk1251 → |
| hasFeature |
animacy-based grammar
→
complex verb morphology → noun incorporation → obviative marking → person hierarchy in verb agreement → rich system of affixes → |
| hasGrammaticalCategory |
animate vs inanimate noun classes
→
obviative vs proximate distinction → |
| hasPhonologicalFeature |
contrastive vowel length
→
nasal vowels → rich consonant inventory → |
| historicalStatus | once widely spoken among Sauk people → |
| iso639-3Code | sac → |
| languageBranch |
Algic languages
→
surface form: "Algic language family"
|
| languageFamily | Algonquian languages → |
| linguisticArea | North American Plains linguistic area → |
| morphologicalType |
agglutinative language
→
polysynthetic language → |
| revitalizationActivity |
development of teaching materials
→
documentation by linguists → language classes in tribal communities → |
| revitalizationStatus | undergoing revitalization efforts → |
| spokenIn |
Iowa
→
Kansas → Nebraska NERFINISHED → Oklahoma → United States of America →
surface form: "United States"
|
| subfamily |
Algonquian languages
→
surface form: "Central Algonquian languages"
|
| traditionalRegion |
Great Lakes region
→
Midwestern United States NERFINISHED → |
| usedByOrganization |
Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska
→
Sac and Fox Nation, Oklahoma →
surface form: "Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma"
Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa → |
| writingSystem |
Canadian Aboriginal syllabics
→
surface form: "Great Lakes Algonquian syllabary"
Latin script → |
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form: "Sauk-Fox language"
this entity surface form: "Thâkîwaki (for Sauk)"
this entity surface form: "Sauk dialect"