Tutelo

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Tutelo is a nearly extinct Siouan language historically spoken by the Tutelo people of the eastern United States, particularly in present-day Virginia and West Virginia.

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Label Occurrences
Tutelo canonical 3

Statements (46)

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instanceOf Siouan language
indigenous language of North America
language
documentedBy Frank G. Speck NERFINISHED
Horatio Hale NERFINISHED
ethnicGroup Tutelo people NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Tutelo-Saponi NERFINISHED
Yesañ NERFINISHED
hasDocumentationType grammatical notes
texts
wordlists
hasLinguisticFeature ablaut in verb stems
animacy distinctions
complex pronominal system
consonant clusters simplified in some dialect data
distinct inclusive and exclusive first person plural pronouns
noun incorporation
person marking on verbs
polysynthetic morphology
possessive prefixes on nouns
postpositions rather than prepositions
prefixing and suffixing morphology
rich verb inflection
verb-final word order tendencies
vowel length contrasts
historicalRegion Virginia NERFINISHED
West Virginia NERFINISHED
eastern United States
ISO639-3 tta NERFINISHED
isPartOf Eastern Siouan branch NERFINISHED
isRelatedTo Biloxi language NERFINISHED
Catawban languages NERFINISHED
Dakotan languages NERFINISHED
Ofo language NERFINISHED
languageFamily Siouan NERFINISHED
lastFluentSpeakersDiedInCentury 20th century
spokenBy Tutelo tribe NERFINISHED
spokenInThePast North Carolina NERFINISHED
Ontario NERFINISHED
Pennsylvania NERFINISHED
Virginia NERFINISHED
West Virginia NERFINISHED
status nearly extinct
subfamily Eastern Siouan NERFINISHED
usedByCommunity Tutelo descendants in cultural and heritage contexts
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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