Fox language

Spoken in

Indigenous American Languages

• Algische languages Algonquian languages

Alg

Sac and kic

Fox ( Fox: Meskwaki; Alternative names: Mesquakie, Mesquakie - Sauk, Mesquakie - Sauk - Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, among others) is an indigenous North American language of the Algonquian language family, which in of about 1,000 people in the Midwestern United States and northern Mexico by the tribes of the Fox ( Meskwaki, " people of the red earth " ), Sac ( Sauk, falsely " people of the yellow earth " ) and Kickapoo ( Kikapu, " the who are here and there" ) is spoken. Accordingly, there are also three different dialects: Fox, Kickapoo and Sac. Kickapoo is however more often than their own, with Fox closely - related language considered ( ISO3 = kic ).

The language is highly endangered. Most speakers are elderly. The school in the Meskwaki Settlement in Iowa offers bilingual education. At the Smithsonian Institute and the University of Chicago research projects on Meskwaki be performed.

Classification

Like other Algonquian languages ​​is also a Fox polysynthetic language, with some fusional trains.

Dialect comparison: Meskwaki - Sauk - Kickapoo

The following table shows how similar the dialects.

Possessive

Possessives are expressed as prefixes. The possessive prefixes are ne -, ke-, or o- before nouns that begin with consonants, and chain-, or ot - before nouns that begin net, with vowels. There are also rare irregularities.