Ho-Chunk language

Ho-Chunk
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]
Language family	Siouan Western Siouan Mississippi Valley Chiwere–Winnebago Ho-Chunk
Writing system	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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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.

"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".