- Assiniboine language
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Assiniboine A' M̆oqazh Spoken in Canada, United States Region Southern Saskatchewan in Canada and Montana in the United States Native speakers 200–250 (date missing) Language family Siouan- Western Siouan
- Mississippi Valley Siouan
- Dakotan
- Assiniboine
- Dakotan
- Mississippi Valley Siouan
Language codes ISO 639-3 asb This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. The Assiniboine language (also Assiniboin, Hohe, or Nakota, Nakoda or Nakona[1]) is a Nakotan Siouan language of the Northern Plains, spoken by around 200 Assiniboine people, most of them elderly. The name Asiniibwaan is an Ojibwe term meaning "Stone Siouans". Along with the closely related Stoney, Assiniboine is an n variety of the Dakotan languages, meaning its autonym is pronounced with an initial n (thus: Nakʰóta as opposed to Dakʰóta or Lakʰóta, and Nakʰóda or Nakʰóna as opposed to Dakʰód or Lakʰól). The Assiniboine language is also closely related to the Sioux language and to the Stoney language (called likewise Nakoda or Nakota), although they are hardly mutually intelligible.
Phonology
Labial Alveolar Palatal or
postalveolarVelar Glottal Stop Aspirated pʰ tʰ tʃʰ kʰ Ejective pʼ tʼ tʃʼ kʼ ʔ Voiced b d dʒ ɡ Fricative Voiceless s ʃ x h Ejective sʼ ʃʼ xʼ Voiced z ʒ ɣ Nasal m n Approximant w j There are five oral vowels in Assiniboine, i, u, e, o, and a, and three nasal vowels, į, ų, and ą.
Notes
- ^ for the usage of the term “nakona” by Fort Peck's Assiniboine, cf. http://fpcctalkindian.nativeweb.org/ and http://www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/hisamples/HI-TCU-FortPeck.pdf
External links
Categories:- Language articles with undated speaker data
- Siouan languages
- Indigenous languages of the North American Plains
- First Nations languages in Canada
- Languages of the United States
- Indigenous languages of the Americas stubs
- Western Siouan
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