Miami-Illinois language
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| Miami-Illinois | ||
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| Spoken in: | Illinois, Indiana,Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma | |
| Language extinction: | mid-20th century | |
| Language family: | Algic Algonquian Central Miami-Illinois |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | alg | |
| ISO 639-3: | mia | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
The Illinois language is a Native American language formerly spoken in the United States, primarily in Illinois and adjacent areas along the Mississippi River by several subtribes, among them the Kaskaskia, Peoria, and Tamaroa. Later the Illinois tribes were forcibly removed from that state, eventually settling in northeastern Oklahoma. The modern descendants of the Illinois are called the Peoria. The language is extensively documented in written materials for over 200 years.
Illinois is an Algic language of the Algonquian phylum. It is part of a larger language often called Miami-Illinois, and forms a dialect continuum with Miami and is part of a larger Central and Plains sprachbund. The language is currently considered "extinct" because there are no fluent native speakers of the language, but there has been a strong language reclamation program since the mid 1990s of the Miami dialect. Many Miami tribal members question the notion of whether "extinct" was the appropriate metaphor and instead use the term "sleeping" since the language was never irretrievably lost. (The Illinois language is extensively documented in three French Jesuit dictionaries from the early 18th century.)
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[edit] References
- Costa, David J. (2003). The Miami-Illinois Language. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
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