Menominee > LINGUIST List Language Search
Name:
Menominee
Type:
Language
Alternate Name:
Menomini
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
39, decreasing. Ethnic population: 799 (2000 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
35
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
39
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
mez
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan)
Parent Subgroup:
Menominee (mnmn)
Brief Description:
"Menominee is a Central Algonquian language, spoken on the Menominee Reservation in northern Wisconsin in the towns of Keshena, Neopit, South Branch, and Zoar. It is spoken as a first language by about 35 people, none under 50 years old." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 18
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Menominee
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