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INTERMEDIATE LEVEL MENOMINEE LANGUAGE

AMERIND 407
Course Description

Learn the sounds and writing system of the language and examine the associated morphology and syntactical verb structures. Develop literacy and an understanding of the unique verb-based polysynthetic sentence structures, and utilize basic conversational skills currently being used among Menominee speakers. Menominee is one of the five Indigenous aboriginal languages spoken in the state of Wisconsin and part of a larger Algonquian language family found only in North America. Menominee is considered to be a highly endangered language.

Prerequisties
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Credits

3

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