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.

All labels observed (4)

Label Occurrences
Nakoda language canonical 6
Stoney Nakoda language 5
Nakota language 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf First Nations language
Indigenous language of North America
Siouan language
alternateName Stoney Nakoda language
linked to: Nakoda language

Stoney language
country Canada
culturalSignificance key marker of Stoney Nakoda identity
vehicle for traditional knowledge
endangeredStatus endangered language
ethnicGroup Stoney Nakoda people
family Siouan language family
linked to: Siouan languages
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
French
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
linguisticTypology head-marking language
polysynthetic language
partOf Siouan–Catawban language family
linked to: Siouan languages
region Canadian Plains
linked to: Great Plains
relatedTo Assiniboine language
Dakota language
Nakota dialects
Stoney language
revitalizationEfforts community language programs
language documentation projects
school-based instruction
spokenIn Alberta
Canada
Saskatchewan
statusInCanada Indigenous minority language
subfamily Dakota–Lakota–Nakota
usedBy Stoney Nakoda communities
usedIn ceremonial contexts
oral storytelling
traditional songs
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (14)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Stoney Nakoda alternativeName Nakoda language
Great Sioux Nation includesLanguage Nakota language
linked to: Nakoda language
Standing Rock isAssociatedWith Nakota language
linked to: Nakoda language
Chiniki First Nation primaryLanguage Stoney Nakoda language
linked to: Nakoda language
Treaty 7 territory hasLanguageTraditions Nakoda language
Morley dialect subdivisionOf Stoney Nakoda language
linked to: Nakoda language
Big Horn dialect subdivisionOf Stoney Nakoda language
linked to: Nakoda language
Big Horn dialect partOf Stoney Nakoda dialect continuum
linked to: Nakoda language
Îyârhe Nakoda language alternateName Stoney Nakoda language
linked to: Nakoda language
Îyârhe Nakoda language alternateName Nakoda language
Nakoda language alternateName Stoney Nakoda language
linked to: Nakoda language