Cheyenne language

Introduction

The Cheyenne language is a Native American language spoken in present-day Wyoming, USA. It is part of the Algonquian language family. Like many Native American languages, it has complex agglutinative morphology.

Phonology

Cheyenne phonology is not exceptionally complex. While there are only three basic vowels[?], they can be pronounced in three ways: high tone, low tone, and voiceless. It is also unclear whether orthographic ‘ts’ and ‘tš’ are separate phonemes or simply representations of /t/ + /s/ and /t/ + /S/ respectively.

Consonants

	bilabial	dental	palatal	velar	glottal
stop	p	t		k	?
fricative	v	s	S	x	h
nasal	m	n

Vowels

	front	central	back
non-low	e		o
low		a

Source: Cheyenne Language Web Site (http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language/index.htm)