Gros Ventre language

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Gros Ventre
Spoken in: United States 
Region: Montana
Total speakers: 10 (1977), a few semi-speakers in 2000
Language family: Algic
 Algonquian
  Plains Algonquian
   Arapahoan
    Gros Ventre
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: ats

Gros Ventre (also known as Atsina, Ahahnelin, Ahe, Ananin) is an endangered Algonquian language spoken in Montana. Speakers have shifted to English. [1]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

[edit] References

  • Ethnologue entry for Gros Ventre
  • Marianne Mithun. 1999. The Languages of Native North America. Cambridge Language Surveys. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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