Shoshoni
Shoshoni or Shoshone ( Sosoni daigwape ' or newe daigwape ) is an indigenous language of North America , by the Shoshone is spoken and the Numic languages , the northern branch of the language family of the Uto-Aztec languages heard.
Language area and number of speakers
Shoshoni speakers live in traditional language areas in Wyoming , Utah , Nevada , Idaho, and Montana . The main dialects are western Shoshoni in Nevada, Gosiute in western Utah, northern Shoshoni in southern Idaho and northern Utah, and eastern Shoshoni in Wyoming.
The number of people who speak Shoshoni has decreased significantly in the 20th century due to the transition to English as the colloquial language, so that today only a few hundred people are fluent in Shoshoni. The UNESCO classified the language as "critically endangered" (severely endangered) a.
Individual evidence
- ^ UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger . Retrieved September 29, 2012.
Web links
- Shoshone language
- The Enee Game - Shoshone language video game
- Shoshoni Swadesh vocabulary list (Wiktionary)
- Portions of the Book of Common Prayer in Shoshoni Translated by Charles Lajoe and the Reverend John Roberts (Wind River Reservation, Wyoming: no publisher, 1899) digitized by Richard Mammana
- Linguist List map of Shoshoni
- Shoshoni Language Project at Idaho State University
- Open source audio for introductory Shoshoni course , (via links to iTunesU)
- Shoshoni Online Dictionary