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Name:
Potawatomi
Type:
Language
Alternate Names:
Pottawotomi; Potawotami
Spoken in:
USA, Canada
Number of speakers:
50 in United States (1995 Potawatomi Language Institute). Population total all countries: 1,300. Ethnic population: 25,000 (1997 L. Buszard-Welcher); 844 (2000 census)
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
200
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
50
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
pot
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Algic (Algonquian-Wiyot-Yurok, Algonquian-Ritwan)
Parent Subgroup:
Potawatomi (ptwt)
Brief Description:
"Potawatomi is an Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwayan dialect complex. It has about 50 first-language speakers in several widely separated communities in the US and Canada. These include the Hannahville Indian Community (Upper Peninsula of Michigan), the Pokagon and Huron Bands (southern Michigan), the Forest County Band (northern Wisconsin), the Prairie Band (eastern Kansas), and the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. A few Potawatomi speakers also live among the Eastern Ojibwe in Ontario, particularly at the Walpole Island Reserve. The largest speech communities are in the Forest County and Prairie Bands, each with about 20 speakers, several conservatively fluent." Victor Golla, Atlas of the World's Languages 2007 pg. 21
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Critically endangered Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Critically Endangered
Map of Potawatomi
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