Nakoda language

E949901

The Nakoda language is an Indigenous Siouan language of the Stoney Nakoda people of the Canadian Plains, closely related to other Dakota and Nakota dialects.

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Label Occurrences
Nakoda language canonical 2

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nations language
Indigenous language of North America
Siouan language
alternateName Stoney Nakoda language NERFINISHED
Stoney language NERFINISHED
country Canada
culturalSignificance key marker of Stoney Nakoda identity
vehicle for traditional knowledge
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnicGroup Stoney Nakoda people NERFINISHED
family Siouan language family NERFINISHED
hasDialects varieties spoken in different Stoney Nakoda communities
hasGrammarFeature animacy distinctions
person marking on verbs
rich system of verbal affixes
verb-centered morphology
hasLoanwordsFrom English NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
hasPhonology contrastive nasal vowels
series of oral stops
hasSpeakers adult speakers
elder speakers
hasWordOrder flexible word order
tends toward SOV or SVO
ISO639-3Code sto
languageBranch Western Siouan NERFINISHED
linguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
partOf Siouan–Catawban language family NERFINISHED
region Canadian Plains NERFINISHED
relatedTo Assiniboine language NERFINISHED
Dakota language NERFINISHED
Nakota dialects
Stoney language NERFINISHED
revitalizationEfforts community language programs
language documentation projects
school-based instruction
spokenIn Alberta NERFINISHED
Canada
Saskatchewan NERFINISHED
statusInCanada Indigenous minority language
subfamily Dakota–Lakota–Nakota NERFINISHED
usedBy Stoney Nakoda communities NERFINISHED
usedIn ceremonial contexts
oral storytelling
traditional songs
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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