Cheyenne | |
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Tsėhesenėstsestȯtse | |
Pronunciation | [tse̥hésene̥stsesto̥tse] |
Native to | United States |
Region | Montana and Oklahoma |
Ethnicity | Cheyenne |
Native speakers | 380 (2020)[1] |
Algic
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | chy |
ISO 639-3 | chy |
Glottolog | chey1247 |
ELP | Cheyenne |
Cheyenne is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
The Cheyenne language (Tsėhesenėstsestȯtse, [tse̥hésene̥stsesto̥tse], informal spelling Tsisinstsistots) is the Native American language spoken by the Cheyenne people, predominantly in present-day Montana and Oklahoma, in the United States. It is part of the Algonquian language family. Like all other Algonquian languages, it has complex agglutinative polysynthetic morphology. This language is considered endangered, at different levels, in both states.