Kutenai
Kutenai is a language isolate spoken in United States and Canada, by about 100 people. Glottolog rates it nearly extinct.
An isolate: no relationship to any other known language has been demonstrated.
Kutenai ( KOOT-nee), also Kootenai, Kootenay, Ktunaxa, and Ksanka, is the native language of the Kutenai people of Montana and Idaho in the United States and British Columbia in Canada. It is typically considered a language isolate, unrelated to the Salishan family of languages spoken by neighboring tribes on the coast and in the interior Plateau. The Kutenai also use ʔa·qanⱡiⱡⱡitnam, Ktunaxa Sign Language.
From Wikipedia · Kutenai language · CC BY-SA 4.0
Words in Kutenai
| Meaning | Word | Romanization |
|---|---|---|
| woman | paⱡki | |
| person | Lcmaknik* | |
| name | ikLiy* | |
| eye | LiL* | |
| ear | uqwat* | |
| nose | un* | |
| tooth | unan* | |
| tongue | waLunak* | |
| hand | iy* | |
| blood | wanmu* | |
| bone | mak* | |
| skin | qLa* | |
| knee | anak* | |
| breast | xaskak* | |
| liver | naqapnik* | |
| water | wuʔu | |
| fire | inquku* | |
| sun | natanik* | |
| moon | k¢iǂmitiǂnukqa | |
| star | iLnuhus* | |
| stone | nukiy* | |
| mountain | wukLi7it* | |
| tree | icLa7in* | |
| leaf | u7Laqpik* | |
| night | ciLmiyit* | |
| dog | xaLcin* | |
| cat | pu·s | |
| fish | kyakxu* | |
| louse | hukiy* | |
| one | uki* |
* in the simplified ASJP transcription
Most similar languages
Vocabulary
- EseKoiarian8% alike
- YandruwandhaPama-Nyungan8% alike
- MaykulanPama-Nyungan8% alike
- WampanoagAlgic7% alike
- TampulmaAtlantic-Congo7% alike
- Eastern MuriaDravidian7% alike
Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.
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Elsewhere
Glottolog · kute1249 · Wikipedia (English) · Ethnologue · kut