ELP ID
11038
ELP Language
Sauk-Fox
Speaker Number
100-999
Public Comment
Sauk-Fox (Meskwaki), spoken by about 200 members of the Meskwaki Tribe in Iowa. It was the heritage language also of the historically separate Sauk tribe, whose descendants today are the Sac and Fox Tribe of central Oklahoma and the Nemaha Sauks on the Kansas-Nebraska border. The Meskwaki variety is also called “Fox”; it differs from Sauk in minor details of pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary, but the variation within Meskwaki alone is almost as great. Kickapoo was originally part of the same dialect complex, but for historical and social reasons it is treated as a separate language.
Source
North America
Preferred
On
Speaker Number Text
~200
Speaker Number Range
100-999