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| Shoshoni | |
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| Sosoni' ta̲i̲kwappe, Neme ta̲i̲kwappeh | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, Idaho |
| Ethnicity | Shoshones |
Native speakers | ~1,000 (2007)[1] 1,000 additional non-fluent speakers (2007)[1] |
Uto-Aztecan
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Early form | Proto-Numic
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | shh |
| Glottolog | shos1248 |
| ELP | Shoshone |
 Map of the Shoshoni (and Timbisha) languages prior to European contact | |
 Shoshoni is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Shoshoni, also written as Shoshoni-Gosiute and Shoshone (/ʃoʊˈʃoʊniː/ shoh-SHOH-nee;[2] Shoshoni: soni' ta̲i̲kwappe, newe ta̲i̲kwappe or neme ta̲i̲kwappeh), is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken in the Western United States by the Shoshone people. Shoshoni is primarily spoken in the Great Basin, in areas of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho.[3]: 1
The consonant inventory of Shoshoni is rather small, but a much wider range of surface forms of these phonemes appear in the spoken language. The language has six vowels, distinguished by length.[3]: 3 Shoshoni is a strongly suffixing language, and it inflects for nominal number and case and for verbal aspect and tense using suffixes. Word order is relatively free but shows a preference toward SOV order.[4]
The endonyms newe ta̲i̲kwappe and Sosoni' ta̲i̲kwappe mean "the people's language" and "the Shoshoni language," respectively.[5]: 5, 176 Shoshoni is classified as threatened, although attempts at revitalization are underway.[6]
- ^ a b Shoshoni at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Bauer, Laurie. (2007). The Linguistics Student’s Handbook. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
- ^ a b McLaughlin, John E. (2012). Shoshoni Grammar. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 9783862883042. OCLC 793217272.
- ^ "WALS Online - Language Shoshone". The World Atlas of Language Structures Online. Retrieved 2018-01-25.
- ^ Gould, Drusilla; Loether, Christopher (2002). An Introduction to the Shoshoni Language: Dammen Da̲igwape. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press. ISBN 0874807301. OCLC 50114343.
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