Intermediate Level Menominee Language
Intermediate Menominee language course covering phonology, orthography, polysynthetic verb structures, literacy, and basic conversational skills for this endangered Algonquian language.
Summary
Lectures are small, with a median of 3 enrolled students in the recorded sections.
What you’ll be able to do
Engage in discussions on basic knowledge of Menominee language, culture, and history, and of key historical and ongoing relations with the United States.
Engage in conversation in Native Language (speaking and understanding) in a variety of common social situations, such as greetings and leave-taking, talking about the weather, sharing meals, and asking informational questions and giving appropriate responses.
Converse easily with the use of appropriate grammatical structures which include beginning and intermediate level vocabulary, and verb conjugations.
Use the standard orthography to read and write the Native language Texts and Materials
Source: UW Guide
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the class
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.
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Topics
- Menominee phonology and orthography.
- Polysynthetic verb morphology and syntax.
- Basic conversational skills in Menominee.
- Menominee linguistic context within Wisconsin and the Algonquian family.
Skills
- Intermediate Menominee conversation, including greetings, social topics, and verb conjugations.
- Reading and writing Menominee texts using standard orthography.
- Analyzing Menominee morphology and syntactical verb structures.
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