Omaha-Ponca language
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Omaha-Ponca | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | United States | |
| Region: | Nebraska and Oklahoma | |
| Total speakers: | 85 | |
| Language family: | Siouan-Proper Siouan Mississippi Valley Dhegiha Omaha-Ponca |
|
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | oma | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Omaha-Ponca is a Siouan language spoken by the Ponca and Omaha people of Nebraska and the Ponca people of Oklahoma. There are today only 60 speakers of Omaha, and 25 fluent speakers, and over sixty semi-fluent speakers of Ponca.
According to the Ethnologue: "Ponca and Omaha are completely inherently intelligible to each other's speakers". They classifies them together as Omaha-Ponca
 |
This Indigenous languages of the Americas-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
