Jump to content
 







Main menu
   


Navigation  



Main page
Contents
Current events
Random article
About Wikipedia
Contact us
Donate
 




Contribute  



Help
Learn to edit
Community portal
Recent changes
Upload file
 








Search  

































Create account

Log in
 









Create account
 Log in
 




Pages for logged out editors learn more  



Contributions
Talk
 



















Contents

   



(Top)
 


1 Sounds  



1.1  Consonants  





1.2  Vowels  







2 Writing system  





3 References  














Kickapoo language






Asturianu
Brezhoneg
Deutsch
Español
Français
Italiano
Nederlands
Norsk nynorsk
Piemontèis
Polski
Русский
 

Edit links
 









Article
Talk
 

















Read
Edit
View history
 








Tools
   


Actions  



Read
Edit
View history
 




General  



What links here
Related changes
Upload file
Special pages
Permanent link
Page information
Cite this page
Get shortened URL
Download QR code
Wikidata item
 




Print/export  



Download as PDF
Printable version
 
















Appearance
   

 






From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 


Kickapoo
Metotheeneniaatoweeheni[1]
Native toUnited States, Mexico
EthnicityKickapoo people

Native speakers

(1200 cited 1978)[1]

Language family

Algic

Dialects
  • monolingual dialect (Peekaatowaakani)[1]
  • Oklahoma dialect
  • Mexican/Texan dialect

Writing system

Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3kic
Glottologkick1244
ELPKickapoo
Kickapoo people building a winter house in the town of Nacimiento Coahuila, Mexico, 2008

Kickapoo (Kickapoo: Metotheeneniaatoweeheni)[1] is either a dialect of the Fox language or a closely related language, closely related to, and mutually intelligible with, the dialects spoken by the Sauk people and Meskwaki people. Their language is included in the Central Algonquian languages subgroup of the Algonquian languages family, itself a member of the Algic languages family.

In 1985, the Kickapoo Nation's School in Horton, Kansas, began a language-immersion program for elementary school grades to revive teaching and use of the Kickapoo language in kindergarten through grade 6.[2] Efforts in language education continue at most Kickapoo sites.

In 2010, the Head Start Program at the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas reservation, which teaches the Kickapoo language, became "the first Native American school to earn Texas School Ready! (TSR) Project certification."[3] Despite these efforts, there are no children who are first-language users of Kickapoo, as they choose to speak English instead.[1]

Also in 2010, Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia participated in the elaboration of a Kickapoo alphabet.[4] The Kickapoo in Mexico are known for their whistled speech.

Texts,[5] recordings,[6] and a vocabulary[7] of the language are available.

The Kickapoo language and members of the Kickapoo tribe were featured in the movie The Only Good Indian (2009), directed by Greg Wilmott and starring Wes Studi. This was a fictionalized account of Native American children forced to attend an Indian boarding school, where they were forced to speak English and give up their cultural practices.[8]

Sounds

[edit]

Consonants

[edit]

Eleven consonant phonemes are used in Kickapoo:

Labial Dental Alveolar Postalveolar/
Palatal
Velar Glottal
Stop p t k
Fricative θ s h
Nasal m n
Approximant j w

Vowels

[edit]

The eight vowel sounds in Kickapoo are: short /a, ɛ, i, o/ and long /aː, ɛː, iː, oː/.[10]

Writing system

[edit]

A Kickapoo alphabet was developed by Paul Voorhis in 1974 and was revised in 1981.[11] A new orthography is used by the Kickapoo Language Development Program in Oklahoma.[12]

Kickapoo alphabet (Kickapoo Language Development Program)[12]
Letter a aa ch e ee h i ii k m n o oo p s t th w y
Pronunciation ə ɑ e æ h ɪ i k m n o ɔ p s t θ w j

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b c d e f g Bluecloud, Mosiah Salazar (2020). A Sketch Grammar of the Kickapoo Language (PDF). The University of Arizona.
  • ^ Reaves, Michell Reaves (2001-08-11). "Canku Ota - Aug. 11, 2001 - Indians Value Their Language". Canku Ota (Many Paths), an Online Newsletter Celebrating Native America, Medill News Service (42). Retrieved 2012-07-19.
  • ^ "Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas First Native American Tribe to Achieve Texas School Ready! Certification". Newswise, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. 2010-01-26. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
  • ^ "Kickapoo Language Prepared to be Written". Art Daily. 2010-04-12. Archived from the original on 16 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
  • ^ "OLAC resources in and about the Kickapoo language". Retrieved 2012-07-19.
  • ^ "Recordings for study of the Shawnee, Kickapoo, Ojibwa, and Sauk-and-Fox :: American Philosophical Society". Retrieved 2012-07-19.
  • ^ "OLAC Record: Kickapoo vocabulary". 1988. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
  • ^ "Kickapoo Language, Culture to be Featured in Film". Hiawatha World Online. 2007-09-12. Archived from the original on 2012-08-10. Retrieved 2012-07-19.
  • ^ Voorhis, Paul H. (1974). Introduction to the Kickapoo Language. Indiana University Publications.
  • ^ a b Voorhis, Paul H. (1967). Kickapoo Grammar. Ann Arbor.
  • ^ Cowan, William (1981). Papers of the Thirteenth Algonquian Conference. Ottawa, Canada: Carleton University. pp. 81–89. ISBN 9780770901233.
  • ^ a b Bluecloud 2020, p. 17-24.

  • t
  • e

  • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kickapoo_language&oldid=1229676055"

    Categories: 
    Central Algonquian languages
    Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands
    Indigenous languages of the North American Plains
    Language stubs
    Hidden categories: 
    Articles with short description
    Short description is different from Wikidata
    Language articles with old speaker data
    ISO language articles citing sources other than Ethnologue
    Articles containing Kickapoo-language text
    Pages with plain IPA
    All stub articles
     



    This page was last edited on 18 June 2024, at 03:22 (UTC).

    Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.



    Privacy policy

    About Wikipedia

    Disclaimers

    Contact Wikipedia

    Code of Conduct

    Developers

    Statistics

    Cookie statement

    Mobile view



    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki