Ho-Chunk language
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The Ho-Chunk language (Hoocąk, Hocąk), also known as Winnebago, is the language of the Ho-Chunk people of the Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin and Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The language is part of the Siouan language family and is closely related to other Chiwere Siouan dialects, including those of the Iowa, Missouria, and Otoe.
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Ho-Chunk | |
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Winnebago | |
Hoocą́k hoit'éra | |
Native to | Midwestern United States |
Region | Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota, Illinois, and Minnesota |
Ethnicity | 1,650 Ho-Chunk (2000 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 250 (2007)[1] Mainly older adults (no date)[2] |
Siouan
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Latin (Ho-Chunk alphabet), Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | win |
Glottolog | hoch1243 |
ELP | Winnebago |
Linguasphere | 64-AAC-d |
Winnebago is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
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"Winnebago," a name now used for the Ho-Chunk who were forcibly removed to Nebraska, is an exonym, an Anglicization of the Sauk and Fox word Oinepegi.[3][4] The anglicized form of the endonym is "Ho-Chunk".