| Gros Ventre | |
|---|---|
| Spoken in | United States |
| Region | Montana |
| Ethnicity | Gros Ventre |
| Native speakers | A few semi-speakers (2000) |
| Language family |
Algic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ats |
Atsina (also known as Gros Ventre, Ananin, Ahahnelin, Atsina, and Ahe[1]) is the moribund Algonquian ancestral language of the Gros Ventre tribe in Montana. The last fluent speaker died in 1981.[2] Atsina is the name applied by specialists in Algonquian linguistics. Arapaho and Atsina are dialects of a common language usually designated by scholars as "Arapaho-Atsina". Historically, this language had five dialects, and on occasion specialists add a third dialect name to the label, resulting in the designation, "Arapaho-Atsina-Nawathinehena".[3] Compared with Arapaho proper, Gros Ventre had three additional phonemes /tʲ/, /ts/, and /bʲ/, and lacked the velar fricative /x/.
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Malainey, Mary E. 2005. The Gros Ventre/Fall Indians in historical and archaeological interpretation. Canadian journal of native studies, 25(1):155-183.