Editing Ho-Chunk language (section)

{{Short description|Siouan language of US Midwest}}
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{{Infobox language
| name             = Ho-Chunk
| altname          = Winnebago
| nativename       = {{lang|win|Hoocą́k hoit'éra}}
| states           = Midwestern United States
| region           = [[Wisconsin]], [[Nebraska]], [[Iowa]], [[South Dakota]], [[Illinois]], and [[Minnesota]]
| ethnicity        = 1,650 [[Ho-Chunk]] (2000 census)<ref name=e18/>
| speakers         = 250
| date             = 2007
| ref              = e18
| speakers2        = Mainly older adults<ref name=e16>{{e16|win}}</ref>
| familycolor      = American
| fam1             = [[Siouan languages|Siouan]]
| fam2             = [[Western Siouan languages|Western Siouan]]
| fam3             = Mississippi Valley
| fam4             = Chiwere–Winnebago
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]] (Ho-Chunk alphabet), <br/>[[Great Lakes Algonquian syllabics]]
| iso3             = win
| notice           = IPA
| glotto           = hoch1243
| lingua           = 64-AAC-d
| glottorefname    = Ho-Chunk
| map              = Lang Status 40-SE.svg
| mapcaption       = {{center|Winnebago is classified as Severely Endangered by the [[UNESCO]] ''[[Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger]]''.}}
}}

The '''Ho-Chunk language''' ({{lang|win|Hoocąk, Hocąk}}), also known as '''Winnebago''', is the language of the [[Ho-Chunk]] people of the [[Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin]] and [[Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska]]. The language is part of the [[Siouan languages|Siouan]] [[language family]] and is closely related to other [[Chiwere Siouan]] dialects, including those of the [[Iowa tribe|Iowa]], [[Missouria]], and [[Otoe]].

"Winnebago", a name now used for the Ho-Chunk who were forcibly removed to [[Nebraska]], is an [[Exonym and endonym|exonym]], an [[Anglicisation|Anglicization]] of the [[Sauk people|Sauk]] and [[Fox language|Fox]] word ''Oinepegi''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ho-chunknation.com/about.aspx|title=About {{!}} Ho-Chunk Nation. About Ho-Chunk Nation {{!}} Ho-Chunk Nation|last=YourName|website=www.ho-chunknation.com|access-date=2016-04-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206174644/http://ho-chunknation.com/about.aspx|archive-date=2015-02-06|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.baraboopubliclibrary.org/files/local/wardvol1/05%20Ho-Chunk%20and%20Winnebgo%20Explained%20-%20About%20Section%20AA.pdf|title=Ho-Chunk and Winnebago Explained|last=Gilmary Shea|first=John|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Collections}}</ref> The anglicized form of the endonym is "Ho-Chunk".