Missouri
- noun
- /mɪˈzʊəri/
- Specialized
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dialecto Missouria
- Few fluent speakers of Missouri remain today due to decades of language loss.
Examples
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Linguists have documented the unique features of the Missouri dialect for historical records.
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Did you know that the Missouri language was used for trade?
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He devoted years to studying Missouri as part of his research on indigenous languages.
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The Missouri dialect has unique phonetic features.
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Linguists have documented the unique features of the Missouri dialect for future generations of scholars.
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Few fluent speakers of Missouri remain today, making its preservation critical for cultural heritage.
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He devoted years to studying Missouri, focusing on its grammar and vocabulary to better understand indigenous communication.
Compounds
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A very long river in the United States that flows southeast from Montana to the Mississippi near St Louis
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An 1820 US law letting Missouri be a slave state, making Maine free, and limiting slavery in western lands
A river in the north-central United States that starts in northeast Wyoming and joins the Missouri River in North Dakota
A small wildflower from the central United States with bright yellow flower clusters that blooms in late summer
A vine from central and southwestern United States and Mexico that makes small hard spotted green fruit you cannot eat
A plant from south central United States with large yellow flowers that open in the evening
Surface Forms
Etymology
Missouri was also used for the tribe's speech because the name comes from the same Native American word meaning 'people of the big canoes', so Missouri refers to the dialect once spoken by that people.