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Potawatomi language, the Glossary

Potawatomi (also spelled Pottawatomie; in Potawatomi,, or) is a Central Algonquian language.^[1]

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Anishinaabe languages
Central Algonquian languages
Indigenous languages of Oklahoma

Algic languages

The Algic languages (also Algonquian–Wiyot–Yurok or Algonquian–Ritwan) are an indigenous language family of North America. Potawatomi language and Algic languages are indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands.

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Algonquian languages

The Algonquian languages (also Algonkian) are a subfamily of the Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the Algic language family are included in the group. Potawatomi language and Algonquian languages are first Nations languages in Canada and indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands.

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Allophone

In phonology, an allophone (from the Greek ἄλλος,, 'other' and φωνή,, 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor phonesused to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language.

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Anishinaabe

The Anishinaabe (alternatively spelled Anishinabe, Anicinape, Nishnaabe, Neshnabé, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek, Aanishnaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. Potawatomi language and Anishinaabe are Potawatomi.

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Aspirated consonant

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.

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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.

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Back vowel

A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.

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Bilabial consonant

In phonetics, a bilabial consonant is a labial consonant articulated with both lips.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Canadian Aboriginal syllabics

Canadian syllabic writing, or simply syllabics, is a family of writing systems used in a number of Indigenous Canadian languages of the Algonquian, Inuit, and (formerly) Athabaskan language families.

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Cecelia Miksekwe Jackson

Cecelia "Meeks" Miksekwe Jackson (October 2, 1922 - May 29, 2011) was a Bodéwademi (Neshnabé/Potawatomi) woman from Kansas in the United States who worked to preserve Bodwéwadmimwen, a critically endangered Algonquian language. Potawatomi language and Cecelia Miksekwe Jackson are native American language revitalization.

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Central Algonquian languages

The Central Algonquian languages are commonly grouped together as a subgroup of the larger Algonquian family, itself a member of the Algic family. Potawatomi language and Central Algonquian languages are first Nations languages in Canada, indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands and Potawatomi.

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Cherokee language

Number of speakers Cherokee is classified as Critically Endangered by UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Cherokee or Tsalagi (Tsalagi Gawonihisdi) is an endangered-to-moribund Iroquoian language and the native language of the Cherokee people. Potawatomi language and Cherokee language are indigenous languages of Oklahoma, indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands and native American language revitalization.

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Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Citizen Potawatomi Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Potawatomi people located in Oklahoma. Potawatomi language and Citizen Potawatomi Nation are Potawatomi.

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Close vowel

A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.

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Cree language

Cree (also known as Cree–Montagnais–Naskapi) is a dialect continuum of Algonquian languages spoken by approximately 86,475 indigenous people across Canada in 2021, from the Northwest Territories to Alberta to Labrador. Potawatomi language and Cree language are central Algonquian languages, first Nations languages in Canada and indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands.

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Deixis

In linguistics, deixis is the use of words or phrases to refer to a particular time (e.g. then), place (e.g. here), or person (e.g. you) relative to the context of the utterance.

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Dental consonant

A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.

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Diphthong

A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.

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Fox language

Fox (known by a variety of different names, including Mesquakie (Meskwaki), Mesquakie-Sauk, Mesquakie-Sauk-Kickapoo, Sauk-Fox, and Sac and Fox) is an Algonquian language, spoken by a thousand Meskwaki, Sauk, and Kickapoo in various locations in the Midwestern United States and in northern Mexico. Potawatomi language and Fox language are indigenous languages of Oklahoma, indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands and native American language revitalization.

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Fricative

A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.

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Front vowel

A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.

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Glottal consonant

Glottal consonants are consonants using the glottis as their primary articulation.

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Great Lakes

The Great Lakes (Grands Lacs), also called the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of large interconnected freshwater lakes in the east-central interior of North America that connect to the Atlantic Ocean via the Saint Lawrence River.

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Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics

Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics (or Great Lakes Aboriginal syllabics,Walker, Willard, 1996; Goddard, Ives, 1996 also referred to as "Western Great Lakes Syllabary" by Campbell) is a writing system for several Algonquian languages that emerged during the nineteenth century and whose existence was first noted in 1880. Potawatomi language and Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics are first Nations languages in Canada and indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands.

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The Hannahville Indian Community is a federally recognized Potawatomi tribe residing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, approximately west of Escanaba on a reservation. Potawatomi language and Hannahville Indian Community are Potawatomi.

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Ho-Chunk

The Ho-Chunk, also known as Hocąk, Hoocągra, or Winnebago are a Siouan-speaking Native American people whose historic territory includes parts of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and Illinois.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Indian removal

The Indian removal was the United States government's policy of ethnic cleansing through the forced displacement of self-governing tribes of American Indians from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi Riverspecifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma), which many scholars have labeled a genocide.

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Indiana

Indiana is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Labialization

Labialization is a secondary articulatory feature of sounds in some languages.

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Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language.

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Latin script

The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.

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Mango Languages

Mango Languages is an American online language-learning website and mobile app based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, for academic institutions, libraries, corporations, government agencies, and individuals.

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Memrise

Memrise is a British language platform that uses spaced repetition of flashcards to increase the rate of learning. Potawatomi language and Memrise are native American language revitalization.

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Menominee language

Menominee, also spelled Menomini (In Menominee language) is an endangered Algonquian language spoken by the historic Menominee people of what is now northern Wisconsin in the United States. Potawatomi language and Menominee language are central Algonquian languages, indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands and native American language revitalization.

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Meskwaki

The Meskwaki (sometimes spelled Mesquaki), also known by the European exonyms Fox Indians or the Fox, are a Native American people.

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Miami–Illinois language

Miami–Illinois (endonym: myaamia), also known as Irenwa or Irenwe, is an indigenous Algonquian language spoken in the United States, primarily in Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, western Ohio and adjacent areas along the Mississippi River by the Miami and Wea as well as the tribes of the Illinois Confederation, including the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Tamaroa, and possibly Mitchigamea. Potawatomi language and Miami–Illinois language are central Algonquian languages and indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands.

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Michigan

Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.

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Mid central vowel

The mid central vowel (also known as schwa) is a type of vowel sound, used in some spoken languages.

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Mid vowel

A mid vowel (or a true-mid vowel) is any in a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the primary river and second-longest river of the largest drainage basin in the United States.

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Nasal consonant

In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.

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Obstruent

An obstruent is a speech sound such as,, or that is formed by obstructing airflow.

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Occlusive

In phonetics, an occlusive, sometimes known as a stop, is a consonant sound produced by occluding (i.e. blocking) airflow in the vocal tract, but not necessarily in the nasal tract.

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Odawa

The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa) are an Indigenous American people who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, now in jurisdictions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

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Ojibwe language

Ojibwe, also known as Ojibwa, Ojibway, Otchipwe,R. Potawatomi language and Ojibwe language are Anishinaabe languages, central Algonquian languages, first Nations languages in Canada, indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands, native American language revitalization and Potawatomi.

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Choctaw: Oklahumma) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Open vowel

An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.

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Ottawa dialect

Ottawa or Odawa is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken by the Odawa people in southern Ontario in Canada, and northern Michigan in the United States. Potawatomi language and Ottawa dialect are Anishinaabe languages, first Nations languages in Canada, indigenous languages of Oklahoma, indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands and native American language revitalization.

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Palatal consonant

Palatals are consonants articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the hard palate (the middle part of the roof of the mouth).

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Phoneme

In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.

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Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians

Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians (Potawatomi: Pokégnek Bodéwadmik) are a federally recognized Potawatomi-speaking tribe based in southwestern Michigan and northeastern Indiana. Potawatomi language and Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians are Potawatomi.

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Potawatomi

The Potawatomi, also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region.

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Potawatomi language

Potawatomi (also spelled Pottawatomie; in Potawatomi,, or) is a Central Algonquian language. Potawatomi language and Potawatomi language are Anishinaabe languages, central Algonquian languages, first Nations languages in Canada, indigenous languages of Oklahoma, indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands, native American language revitalization and Potawatomi.

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Powers Bluff

Powers Bluff is a wooded hill in central Wisconsin near Arpin.

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Proto-Algonquian language

Proto-Algonquian (commonly abbreviated PA) is the proto-language from which the various Algonquian languages are descended.

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Sauk people

The Sauk or Sac are Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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Shawnee

The Shawnee are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands.

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Sonorant

In phonetics and phonology, a sonorant or resonant is a speech sound that is produced with continuous, non-turbulent airflow in the vocal tract; these are the manners of articulation that are most often voiced in the world's languages.

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Swampy Cree language

Swampy Cree (variously known as Maskekon, Maskegon and Omaškêkowak, and often anglicized as Omushkego) is a variety of the Algonquian language, Cree. Potawatomi language and Swampy Cree language are central Algonquian languages, first Nations languages in Canada and indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands.

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Syllabic consonant

A syllabic consonant or vocalic consonant is a consonant that forms a syllable on its own, like the m, n and l in some pronunciations of the English words rhythm, button and bottle, respectively.

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Syncope (phonology)

In phonology, syncope (from συγκοπή||cutting up) is the loss of one or more sounds from the interior of a word, especially the loss of an unstressed vowel.

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The Topeka Capital-Journal

The Topeka Capital-Journal is a daily newspaper in Topeka, Kansas, owned by Gannett.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potawatomi_language

Also known as Bodwewadmi Zheshmowen, Bodwewadmimwen, ISO 639:pot, Neshnabemwen, Potawatomi (language).

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Potawatomi language, the Glossary

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See also

Anishinaabe languages

Central Algonquian languages

Indigenous languages of Oklahoma

References