Shawnee
Facts
- Language: Shawnee
- Alternate names: Algonkin
- Language code: sjw
- Language family: Algic, Algonquian-Blackfoot, Algonquian, Eastern Great Lakes Algonquian
- Number of speakers: 200
- Vulnerability: Endangered [Read more...]
- Script: Latin script
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Introduction
The Shawnee language is a Central Algonquian language spoken in parts of central and northeastern Oklahoma by the Shawnee people. It was originally spoken this people in a broad territory throughout the Eastern United States, mostly north of the Ohio River. They occupied territory in Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania.