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Name:
Illinois
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Miami; Miami-Illinois; Miami-Myaamia; Peoria; Piankishaw; Miami Cluster; Illinois-Peoria-Miami
Once Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
Ethnic population: 2,000 (1977 SIL)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
mia
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan)
Parent Subgroup:
Miami-Illinois (miam)
Brief Description:
"Miami-Illinois was an Algonquian dialect complex spoken in the eighteenth century and earlier by groups in what is now Illinois and northern Indiana. At least three clusters of dialects were preserved after the relocation of these tribes to Kansas in the nineteenth century: (1) Peoria-Kaskaskia, (2) Piankashaw-Wea, and (3) Miami. Speakers of at least some varieties survived into the twentieth century, but there have been no fluent first-language speakers since 1962." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 18
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Extinct UNESCO Status: Extinct Ethnologue Status: Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
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