Myaamia

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Myaamia is an Algonquian Native American language historically spoken by the Miami (Myaamia) people of the Midwest United States, now the focus of active revitalization efforts.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Myaamia canonical 8
Myaamia people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Algonquian language
Native American language
endangered language
revitalized language
alsoKnownAs Miami language
Miami-Illinois
associatedEthnicGroup Miami Nation of Indiana
Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
autonym Myaamia
closelyRelatedTo Fox language
Kickapoo language
Ojibwe language
linked to: Anishinaabemowin

Shawnee language
culturalRole central to Miami identity
currentUse taught in community language programs
used in cultural and educational contexts
documentedIn French missionary records
Jesuit dictionaries
early wordlists and grammars
glottocode miam1252
hasLinguisticFeature animacy-based grammar
complex verb morphology
obviative marking
person hierarchy in verb agreement
polysynthetic morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
historicallySpokenBy Miami people
historicalRegion Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
Midwestern United States
Ohio
Oklahoma
Wisconsin
ISO639-3Code mia
languageFamily Algonquian languages
macroFamily Algic languages
revitalizationLedBy Miami Tribe of Oklahoma
revitalizationMethod development of teaching materials
university-community partnership model
use of archival documentation
revitalizationPartner Miami University (Ohio)
linked to: Miami University
revitalizationProgram Myaamia Center at Miami University
revitalizationStatus subject of active language revitalization
statusIn20thCentury no native speakers by mid-20th century
subfamilyOf Central Algonquian languages
linked to: Central Algonquian
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Miami tribe alsoKnownAs Myaamia
Miami tribe alsoKnownAs Myaamia people
linked to: Myaamia
Miami people selfDesignation Myaamia
Miami ethnonym Myaamia
Miami nativeName Myaamia
Myaamia autonym Myaamia
Miami-Illinois endonym Myaamia