Spring 2027

Intermediate Level Menominee Language II

Intermediate Menominee language course focusing on writing systems, morphology, polysynthetic verb structures, and basic conversational skills for this endangered Algonquian language.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Daniel Grignon

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Engage in discussions on the basic-intermediate knowledge of Menominee language, culture, and history, and of key historical and ongoing relations with the United States.

  • Engage in conversation in Menominee (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 Menominee texts and materials

Source: UW Guide

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AMER IND 407

AMERIND 408

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LEC 001Online Only0 / 400

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Continue practice in the writing system of the Menominee language and examine the associated morphology and syntactical verb structures. Develop increased 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 writing system and orthography
  • Morphology and syntactical verb structures
  • Polysynthetic sentence structures
  • Basic conversational skills
  • Menominee culture, history, and relations with the United States

Skills

  • Conversational skills in Menominee including greetings, weather talk, meals, and informational questions using intermediate vocabulary and verb conjugations.
  • Reading and writing Menominee texts using standard orthography.
  • Analysis of Menominee morphology and syntactical verb structures.

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AMERIND 408 · Spring 2027

Intermediate Level Menominee Language II

Recorded 2026-10-14
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