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The Pawnee language is a Caddoan Language spoken today by the Pawnee people in Oklahoma in the United States .


Consonants


Pawnee has 8 (or 9) consonants:

  • is predictable when it occurs in the middle of words. However, since is not completely predictable at the ends of words, it may also need to be considered as a ( Phonemic ) consonant.



Vowels


The 8 vowels of Pawnee:

Pawnee has both short and long vowels.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


  • Mithun, Marianne. (1999). ''The languages of Native North America''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23228-7 (hbk); ISBN 0-521-29875-X.

  • Parks, Douglas R. (1976). ''A grammar of Pawnee''. New York: Garland.

  • Taylor, Allan R. (1978). of ''A grammar of Pawnee'' by D. Parks . ''Language'', ''54'' (4), 969-972.