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Assiniboine language

NameAssiniboine
NativenameA' M̆oqazh
FamilycolorAmerican
StatesCanada, United States
RegionSouthern Saskatchewan in Canada and Montana in the United States
Speakers200 � 250
Fam1Siouan
Fam2Siouan proper
Fam3Mississippi Valley Siouan
Fam4Dakotan
Iso3asb
NoticeIPA

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The Assiniboine language (also Assiniboin, Hohe, or Nakota, Nakoda or Nakona) 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.


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