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A Shawnee language occurs as Central Algonquian language spoken in area of central & northeastern Oklahoma by only in the area of 200 Shawnee, making it very endangered. It was originally spoken inside Ohio, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania. These are closely related the more Algonquian languages Mesquakie-Sauk (Sac and Fox) and Kickapoo
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Sounds
Stress within Shawnee lessens on the final syllable of the word.
Vowels
Shawnee has little joe short vowels, .
Consonants
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! align="center"|Alveolar
! align="center"|Palatal
! align="center"|Velar
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! Plosive
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| align="center"|t
| align="center"|ch
| align="center"|k
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! Fricative
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| align="center"|sh
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! Lateral
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! Nasal
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| align="center"|n
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! Semivowel
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Grammar
Shawnee shares numerous grammatical features by owning more Algonquian languages. There are 2 third souls, proximate and obviative, and ii noun classes (or even genders), animate and inanimate. These are primarily agglutinating typologically, and is polysynthetic, resulting inside much of info existence encoded on the verb. A usual word the correct sequence is Verb-Subject.
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