The Menominee language (also spelled Menomini) is an Algonquian language originally spoken by the Menominee people of northern Wisconsin and Michigan. It is still spoken on the Menominee Nation lands in Northern Wisconsin in the United States. Menominee is a highly endangered language, with only a handful of elderly speakers left.
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- The Menominee language (also spelled Menomini) is an Algonquian language originally spoken by the Menominee people of northern Wisconsin and Michigan. It is still spoken on the Menominee Nation lands in Northern Wisconsin in the United States. Menominee is a highly endangered language, with only a handful of elderly speakers left. According to a 1997 report by the Menominee Historic Preservation Office, 39 people speak Menominee as their first language, all of whom are elderly; 26 speak it as their second language; and 65 others have learned some of it for the purpose of understanding the language and/or teaching it to others. The Menominee Language & Culture Commission has been established by the Menominee Nation to promote the continued use of the language. The name of the tribe, and the language, Omāēqnomenew, comes from the word for wild rice, which was a staple of this tribe's diet for millennia. This designation for them (as Omanoominii) is also used by the Anishinaabe, their Algonquian neighbors to the north. The main characteristics of Menominee, as compared to other Algonquian languages, are its heavy use of the low front vowel /æ/, its rich negation morphology, and its lexicon. Some scholars have classified it as a Central Algonquian language based on its phonology. For good sources of information on both the Menominee and their language, some valuable resources include Leonard Bloomfield's 1928 bilingual text collection, his 1962 grammar (a landmark in its own right), and Skinner's earlier anthropological work.
- Le menominee est une langue algonquienne centrale, parlée aux États-Unis, dans le Wisconsin. Le nombre de locuteurs est réduit à 39 sur une population ethnique de 3 500 personnes . Le nombre de locuteurs a dramatiquement diminué puisque Leonard Bloomfield, dans son étude de 1939, l'estimait à 1 700. La langue est quasiment éteinte.
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- The Menominee language (also spelled Menomini) is an Algonquian language originally spoken by the Menominee people of northern Wisconsin and Michigan. It is still spoken on the Menominee Nation lands in Northern Wisconsin in the United States. Menominee is a highly endangered language, with only a handful of elderly speakers left.
- Le menominee est une langue algonquienne centrale, parlée aux États-Unis, dans le Wisconsin. Le nombre de locuteurs est réduit à 39 sur une population ethnique de 3 500 personnes . Le nombre de locuteurs a dramatiquement diminué puisque Leonard Bloomfield, dans son étude de 1939, l'estimait à 1 700. La langue est quasiment éteinte.
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