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Name:
Osage
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Kansa; Kansas; Kaw; Konze; Kanze
Once Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
19 (1990 census), decreasing. Ethnic population: 74 (2000 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
19
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
ksk
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Siouan-Catawban (Siouan)
Parent Subgroup:
Dhegiha; Dhegihan; Cegiha (dheg)
Brief Description:
"Kansa was a language of the Dhegiha subgroup of Siouan closely related to Osage. Kansa was spoken before the mid-nineteenth century by the Kansa or Kaw tribe in northeastern Kansas, which was removed in 1873 to a small reservation in Oklahoma. Dissolved in 1902, the Kaw Nation was reconstituted in 1959 with a headquarters at Kaw City, Oklahoma, and now has a membership of about 1,700. There have been no fluent speakers of the language since the early 1980s, but about a dozen people claim some knowledge of it." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 16
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
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