Chiwere

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Chiwere is a Siouan language historically spoken by the Otoe-Missouria and Iowa (Ioway) Native American tribes of the central United States.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Chiwere canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Siouan language
basicWordOrder SOV
branch Western Siouan
closelyRelatedTo Ho-Chunk language
Winnebago language
culturalDomain Ioway culture
Otoe-Missouria culture
endangermentStatus moribund
severely endangered
glottocode iowa1245
hasAlternativeName Chiwere-Winnebago (historical grouping)
Iowa-Oto
Iowa-Otoe-Missouria
hasDialect Iowa dialect
Otoe-Missouria dialect
hasLinguisticDocumentation grammars
text collections
wordlists
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
polysynthetic
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasal vowels
voiceless stops
hasRevitalizationEffort dictionary projects
language classes
orthography development
hasTypologicalFeature person marking on verbs
rich verb morphology
historicalRegion Central United States
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
iso639-3Code iow
languageFamily Siouan
linked to: Siouan languages
partOf North American indigenous languages
spokenBy Iowa people
Ioway people
Otoe-Missouria people
subfamily Missouri River Siouan
usedByCommunity Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska
Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma
Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians
usedFor oral storytelling
songs
traditional ceremonies
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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