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  2. Languages of Illinois - Wikipedia

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    These languages disappeared from Illinois when the U.S. carried out Indian Removal, culminating in the Black Hawk War of 1832 and the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. French was the language of colonial Illinois before 1763, and under British rule remained the most-spoken language in the main settlements of Cahokia and Kaskaskia.

  3. Kenneth L. Hale - Wikipedia

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    Kenneth Locke Hale (August 15, 1934 – October 8, 2001), also known as Ken Hale, was an American linguist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who studied a huge variety of previously unstudied and often endangered languages—especially indigenous languages of North America and Australia.

  4. Brenda Farnell - Wikipedia

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    Brenda Farnell is a British-American anthropologist and Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois. [1] Her areas of focus include dance, movement, performance, language, and Labanotation. Her work is influenced by Sociocultural Theory, Visual Anthropology, Ethnopoetics, and Semiotic Anthropology. [1]

  5. Missouri French - Wikipedia

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    Missouri French (French: français du Missouri) or Illinois Country French (French: français du Pays des Illinois) also known as français vincennois, français Cahok, and nicknamed "Paw-Paw French" often by individuals outside the community but not exclusively, [3] is a variety of the French language spoken in the upper Mississippi River Valley in the Midwestern United States, particularly ...

  6. Illinois - Wikipedia

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    The official language of Illinois is English, [139] although between 1923 and 1969, state law gave official status to "the American language". Nearly 80% of people in Illinois speak English natively, and most of the rest speak it fluently as a second language. [ 140 ]

  7. John L. Locke - Wikipedia

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    John L. Locke is an American biolinguist who has contributed to the understanding of language development and the evolution of language.His work has focused on how language emerges in the social context of interaction between infants, children and caregivers, how speech and language disorders can shed light on the normal developmental process and vice versa, how brain and cognitive science can ...

  8. Robert Lees (linguist) - Wikipedia

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    Spoken Language Serv 1981, ISBN 978-0-87950-614-8 with Braj B. Kachru, Yacov Malkiel, Angelina Pietrangeli: Issues in Linguistics: Papers in Honor of Henry and Renee Kahane . University of Illinois Press 1974, ISBN 978-0-252-00246-5

  9. Miami–Illinois language - Wikipedia

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    Miami–Illinois (endonym: myaamia, [a]) [3] is an Indigenous Algonquian language spoken in the United States, primarily in Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, western Ohio and adjacent areas along the Mississippi River by the Miami and Wea as well as the tribes of the Illinois Confederation, including the Kaskaskia, Peoria, Tamaroa, and possibly Mitchigamea.