Kansa language
Siouan language of the Dhegihan group once spoken by the Kaw people / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kansa is a Siouan language of the Dhegihan group once spoken by the Kaw people of Oklahoma. Vice President Charles Curtis spoke Kansa as a child. The last mother-tongue speaker, Ralph Pepper, died in June 1982.[3]
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Kansa | |
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Káⁿza | |
Native to | United States |
Region | Kansas, Oklahoma |
Ethnicity | Kaw[1] |
Extinct | June 1982, with the death of Ralph Pepper[1] |
Revival | approximately 12 second language speakers (2007)[1] |
Siouan
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | ksk |
qlc Kansa-Osage | |
Glottolog | kans1243 |
ELP | Kanza |
Kansa is classified as Extinct by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2] |
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