| Kutenai | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | Canada |
| Region | British Columbia |
| Ethnicity | Kutenai people |
| Native speakers | 12 (date missing) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kut |
Kutenai language
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The Kutenai language (also Kootenai or Ktunaxa language) is named after and is spoken by some of the Kootenai Native American/First Nations people who are indigenous to the area of North America that is now Montana, Idaho, and British Columbia.[1]
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Genetic relationships [link]
Kutenai is a language isolate having no demonstrable relation to any other language. The most plausible hypothesis for a connection to other languages is the proposal that it is distantly related to the Salishan languages. This hypothesis is generally considered plausible but has not been established.
Current status [link]
The 1990 US Census counted 102 Kutenai speakers in the United States and the Canadian Census counted 220 speakers. However, as of 1999, only about a dozen elders spoke the language fluently.[2]
History of description [link]
The first grammar of Kutenai, by Roman Catholic missionary Philippo Canestrelli, was published in 1894 in Latin.[3]
See also [link]
References [link]
- ^ https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/livingthelanguage/2012/04/20124161467967300.html
- ^ Mithun, The Languages of North America
- ^ Canestrelli, Philippo (1894). Grammar of the Kutenai Language. https://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=hunt&cc=hunt&idno=hunt0127&node=hunt0127%3A2&frm=frameset&view=image&seq=1. Retrieved 2010-11-15.
- Campbell, Lyle. (1997). American Indian languages: The historical linguistics of Native America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-509427-1.
- Mithun, Marianne (2000) The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7
Further reading [link]
- Kootenai Culture Committee of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Ksanka ʼA·kłukaqwum = Kootenai Dictionary. Elmo, Mont: Kootenai Culture Committee, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, 1999.
External links [link]
- Ethnologue entry
- First Nations Languages of British Columbia Ktunaxa page
- Ktunaxa language at languagegeek.com
- Resources in and about the Kutenai language at language-archives.org
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