Cheyenne language
| Cheyenne | |
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| Tsėhésenėstsestȯtse | |
| Native to | United States |
| Region | Montana and Oklahoma |
| Ethnicity | Cheyenne |
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Native speakers
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2,100 (2007) |
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Algic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | chey1247 |
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The Cheyenne language Tsėhésenėstsestȯtse or, in easier 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 Algonquian languages, it has complex agglutinative morphology.
Cheyenne is one of the Algonquian languages, which is a sub-category of the Algic languages. Specifically, it is a Plains Algonquian language. However, Plains Algonquian, which also includes Arapaho and Blackfoot, is an areal rather than genetic subgrouping.
Cheyenne is spoken on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana and in Oklahoma. At the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, where as of March 2013, there were approximately 10,050 enrolled tribal members, of which about 4,939 resided on the reservation ; slightly more than a quarter of the population five years or older spoke a language other than English.
The Cheyenne language is considered "definitely endangered" in Montana, and "critically endangered" in Oklahoma by the UNESCO. Classes in the Cheyenne language are available at Chief Dull Knife College in Lame Deer, Montana, at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, and at Watonga High School, in Watonga, Oklahoma,
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