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Kansa

Kansa

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A Native American language spoken by the Kansa people and related to other nearby languages
  • noun
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  • Many young people are learning Kansa to preserve their cultural heritage.

Examples

  • Elders in the community often share stories in Kansa during gatherings.

  • Kansa:

    Gallowwalkers (2012)

  • Kaw, sometimes called Kansa, Osage, and Pawnee, wearing ordinary farm clothes and looking singularly peaceful.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • The Kansa language is part of the Dhegiha dialect group spoken by the Kansa people.

Synonyms

Kansas
vsKansa
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A Native American language once spoken by the Kansa people

is the same dialect but described by relation to other Dhegiha varieties

Surface Forms

Kansa singular
Kansas plural

Etymology

Kansa names the language of the Kansa people and comes from the tribe's own word Kanza, which means 'people of the south wind'. So the language is named after the people who spoke it, and their name is also the source of the Kansas River and the state name Kansas.