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Name:
Pawnee
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Grand Pawnee; Republican Pawnee
Spoken in:
USA
Number of speakers:
20 (1997 J. Parks). Ethnic population: 2,500 (1997 J. Parks); 79 (2000 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
10
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
20
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
paw
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Caddoan
Parent Subgroup:
Pawnee; Pawnee Cluster; Proto-Pawnee (pawn)
Child Dialects:
Skiri; Skidi; Wolf Band (paw-ski)
South Band; South Band Pawnee (paw-sba)
Brief Description:
"Pawnee, a Northern Caddoan language closely related to Arikara, is spoken in two dialects, Skiri and South Band. The language was spoken in villages along the Platte River in central Nebraska until 1874, when the tribe was relocated to what is now Pawnee County in north-central Oklahoma, where they reside today. There are fewer than 10 speakers, all elderly and most speaking the South Band dialect, in a total tribal population of about 2,500." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 21
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
Linguist List Status: Nearly Extinct UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Nearly Extinct Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Pawnee
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